Texas School Journal, Volumes 16-17

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Texas Educational Journal Publishing Company, 1898 - Education
 

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Page 33 - The Swing How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
Page 124 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun ; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory ; ' Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 194 - Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
Page 38 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 71 - O Sheik, I cannot leave thee so ; I will repay thee ; all this thou hast done Unto that Ibrahim who slew thy son ! " " Take thrice the gold," said Yussouf, " for with thee Into the desert, never to return, My one black thought shall ride away from me ; First-born, for whom by day and night I yearn, Balanced and just are all of God's decrees ; Thou art avenged, my first-born, sleep in peace...
Page 185 - Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes- ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
Page 196 - Shall I take them away?" said the Frost, sweeping down. "No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown," Prayed the Tree, while he trembled from rootlet to crown. The Tree bore his blossoms, and all the birds sung; "Shall I take them away?
Page 71 - This tent is mine," said Yussouf, "but no more Than it is God's; come in, and be at peace Freely shalt thou partake of all my store As I of His, who buildeth over these Our tents His glorious roof of night and day, And at whose door none ever yet heard Nay.

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