With Grenfell on the LabradorStory of everyday life of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell among the fishermen of Labrador, presenting good general picture of Labrador life. |
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Page 129 - UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 50 - Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for ourselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues ; nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use1.
Page 15 - I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do. With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die!
Page 15 - There, till the vision he foresaw Splendid and whole arise, And unimagined Empires draw To council 'neath his skies, The immense and brooding Spirit still Shall quicken and control. Living he was the land, and dead, His soul shall be her soul!
Page 50 - Is thy cruse of comfort wasting ? rise, and share it with another, And through all the years of famine, it shall serve thee and thy brother : Love divine will fill thy storehouse, or thy handful still renew ; Scanty fare for one will often make a royal feast for two.
Page 45 - ... that I could not walk. For a few days subsequently I had painful reminders of the adventure in my frozen hands and feet, which forced me to keep to my bed — an unwelcome and unusual interlude in my way of life. In our hallway stands a bronze tablet: "To the Memory of Three Noble Dogs Moody Watch Spy Whose lives were given For mine on the ice April 21st, 1908.
Page 122 - If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me. For...
Page 50 - What more doth the Lord require of thee than to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?