A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . arious forms of death appearNo skill, alas, or power has he Aright his dangerous course to distant land he sometimes sees, And thinks his toils will soon be some favorable breez Will waft him to that shore. Life is short And death is sureSins the wound And Christ the cure. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. While earth-born beauty fades and di es In darkness deep as midnight air,The white
A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . arious forms of death appearNo skill, alas, or power has he Aright his dangerous course to distant land he sometimes sees, And thinks his toils will soon be some favorable breez Will waft him to that shore. Life is short And death is sureSins the wound And Christ the cure. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. While earth-born beauty fades and di es In darkness deep as midnight air,The white-winged spirit scales the ski es And lives in golden rapture there. A YANKEE BACHELOR ABROAD 367 She was, but words are wanting to say what,Say what a woman ought to he and she was that. Bold infidelity turn pale and die,Under this stone an infants ashes lie. Say, is it saved or lost?If death by sin, it sinned, for it lies here;If heaven hy works in heaven it cant appear. Ah, Reason! how the Bibles sacred page. The knots untied,It died through Adam; it lives, for Jesus died. This turf has drunk a widows of her husbands slumber. H 364,85*$. ay & • 4<& /
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