Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...to-day. If anything troubles or discourages you, put it away from you: the grand old world is happy and bright, why should not you be? There is no better time to be glad than on a fresh, dewy June morning! When breaks the morn in the clear, blue sky, And the young larks wake and sing, When the tall brown rushes still and shy To the brooks are whispering, I catch the refrain that charms me so And my heart beats light and free, --For I'm in love with the world, you know, And the world's in love with me! When hums the bee in the honey-flowers Where the meads are sweet and gay, When sparrows chirp thro' the rosy hours Their twittering roundelay: My heart with all nature, wakes to hear The music in bough and tree, For I'm in love with the world, my dear, And the world's in love with me! IDA SCOTT TAYLOR. IN chaste and warm affections, humble wishes, and honest toil for some useful end, there is health for the mind, and quiet for the heart, the prospect of a happy life, and the fairest hope of Heaven.--Nathaniel HAWTHORNE. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Cherish lofty ambitions, Let thy good deeds begin in thy heart, and grow out of it; let every duty be done through a sense of right, and with a desire to honor God and thyself. Love thy fellow-men: if they stand above thee, reach up to them in love: if they are below thee, stoop down to them in love, and thou canst lift them up. Do every good deed in love to God and man. The test of worth Is not the hold you have of earth; Lo, there be gentlest souls, sea blown, That know not any harbor known; And it may be the reason is They touch on fairer shores than this. JOAQUIN MILLER. I count...
