The Tuftonian, Volume 35Tufts College, 1909 |
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Page 49 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men, and we are His children — brothers and sisters all. We are citizens of these United States, and we believe our Flag stands for self-sacrifice for the good of all the people.
Page 87 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in' the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Page 86 - This morning came up to my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine ; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty ; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me 5/. ; but that I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines.
Page 164 - Is only asked for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. And this because with them I dwell In thought, while calmly bent To read the lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours. Accept, she says; it is not hard In woods; but she in towns Repeats, accept; and have we wept, And have we quailed with fears, Or shrunk with horrors, sure reward We have whom knowledge crowns1, Who see in mould the rose unfold, The soul through blood and tears.
Page 87 - Pagan superstitions, and chiefly by some commutation of their forms, substituted, in the present instance, the names of particular saints instead of those of the women : and as the festival of the Lupercalia had commenced about the middle of February, they appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's day for celebrating the new feast ; because it occurred nearly at the same time.
Page 26 - I am sensible, that if there be anything good about my poetry or prose either, it is a hurried frankness of composition, which pleases soldiers, sailors, and young people of bold and active disposition. I have been no sigher in shades — -no writer of * Songs and sonnets and rustical roundelays, Framed on fancies, and whistled on reeds.
Page 167 - Stop a moment : I seize an idea from the pit. They tell us that discord, though discord, alone, Can be harmony when the notes properly fit : Am I judging all things from a single false tone ? Is the Universe one immense Organ, that rolls From devils to angels ? I'm blind with the sight. It pours such a splendour on heaps of poor souls ! I might try at kneeling with Molly to-night.
Page 87 - ... having suffered martyrdom in the third century, under the emperor Claudius.* Some have conjectured that the custom of devoting this day to Cupid is traceable to the ancient Romans, whose festivals, called Lupercalia, were celebrated about this time. On these occasions, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by a band of devotees, as chance directed. The practical joking which prevails so universally on the day in question, the...