Once and for ever, or, Passages in the life of the curate of Danbury, by the author of 'No appeal'.

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Side 146 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Side 80 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Side 180 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Side 82 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Side 115 - Out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Side 111 - Luckily it is not all sunshine for any of us, more than it is always a dead calm at sea, without a wave or a ripple. A pretty state of stagnation the world would be in before the end of a month if everything settled down into unbroken smoothness and quiet, and we all took to lying on our backs...
Side 175 - What's gone and what's past help should be past grief" (Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2).
Side 145 - Eyes, look your last ; Arms, take your last embrace !
Side 178 - You cannot get rid of trouble if you traverse the face of the earth ; but by steady perseverance you may learn to bear it bravely, and live it down. What you may have lost can never be replaced, but there is yet a whole chapter in your life to be lived, and you must live this ; if you fail, try again. Never say or allow it to be said, without correcting the speaker, " If I had been this, that, or the other, matters would have been different.
Side 173 - Danbury with a lighter heart than he had known for many a long day.

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