Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Volume 1Rollin Hillyer Cooke Lewis Publishing Company, 1906 - Berkshire County (Mass.) |
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Page 55 - By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber-door, " Forever — never ! Never — forever!
Page 54 - From dawn to the blush of another day, Like traveller singing along his way. That fairy music I never hear, Nor gaze on those waters so green and clear, And mark them winding away from sight, Darkened with shade or flashing with light, While o'er them the vine to its thicket clings, And the zephyr stoops to freshen his wings...
Page 56 - Shows on his deed, — the charter of the soil ! 0 gracious Mother, whose benignant breast Wakes us to life, and lulls us all to rest, How thy sweet features, kind to every clime, Mock with their smile the wrinkled front of time ! We stain thy flowers, — they blossom o'er the dead ; We rend thy bosom, and it gives us bread ; O'er the red...
Page 54 - In summer, too, Canute-like; sitting here, one is often reminded of the sea. For not only do long ground-swells roll the slanting grain, and little wavelets of the grass ripple over upon the low piazza, as their beach, and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray, and the purple of the mountains is just the purple of the billows, and a still August noon broods upon the deep meadows, as a calm upon the Line; but the vastness and the lonesomeness are so oceanic, and the silence and the...
Page 57 - All the villagers lie asleep ; Never a grain to sow or reap, Never in dreams to moan or sigh, Silent, and idle, and low they lie. In that village under the hill, When the night is starry and still, Many a weary soul in prayer Looks to the other village there, And, weeping and sighing, longs to go Up to that home, from this below ; Longs to sleep...
Page 43 - But these webs may be seen well enough in the daytime by an observing eye, by their reflection in the sunbeams. Especially late in the afternoon may these webs, that are between the eye and that part of the horizon that is under the Sun, be seen very plainly, being advantageously posited to reflect the rays. And the spiders themselves may be very often seen travelling in the air, from one stage to another amongst the trees, in a very unaccountable manner. But I have often seen that which is much...
Page 44 - I have seen a vast multitude of little shining webs, and glistening strings, brightly reflecting the sunbeams, and some of them of great length, and of such a height, that one would think they were tacked to the vault of the heavens, and would be burnt like tow in the sun, and make a very beautiful, pleasing, as well as surprising appearance.
Page 50 - The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah, Down with the traitor, up with the star, While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Page 49 - ... of blue cloth, closely fitting his person ; the sleeves reached midway between the elbow and wrist, and the naked and, as it would seem to a modern eye, awkward space, was garnished with deeppointed lace ruffles of a coarse texture; a ruff or collar of the same material was worn about the neck. The Indian stranger was tall for her years, which did not exceed fifteen. Her form was slender, flexible, and graceful; and there was a freedom and loftiness in her movement which, though tempered with...
Page 82 - ... importance would, how unlike it soon became to the organizations in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, which it at first proposed to itself for models. Indeed, the parts of teacher and pupil were reversed, and in 1822, Thomas Gold, the third president of the association, was able to write of it : " Its fame and influence have extended over the entire surface of the United States ; its example followed, its approbation courted, by its extended offspring. It has been recognized, as well in...