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Page 110 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 19 - By the Bishop of Brechin. 4d. A short tale to show that it does not require "some great thing to make a Saint, and that the commonest and simplest action of...
Page 76 - Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.
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Page 34 - SISTER'S CARE; or, How a very young girl took care of her little orphan sister. By the Author of "Michael the Chorister.