An Undiscovered Island
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217169790
Paperback|9780217169790
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HI Be not afraid; the isle is foil of noises, Sounds and sweet airs n give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methonght would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; riit when I waked, I cried to dream again. When the sun rose the next morning, we rose with it, eager to explore our little world about which the sea never ceased to sing its mighty hymn of solitude and mystery. There was something impressive in the consciousness of our isolation: between us and any noise of human occupation the waters were stretched as a barrier against which all sound died into silence. There was something enchanting in the beauty and strangeness of this tiny continent, unreported by any geography, unmarked on any chart save that which a few possess as a kind of sacred heritage, untravelled as yet by our eager feet. There was something thrilling in the associations that touched the island with such a light as never fell from sun or star. With beating hearts we set out on that wondrous exploration. Who does not remember the thrill of the first discovery of a new world; that joy of the soul in possession of a great new truth which passesall speech ? There are hours in this troubled life when the mists are lifted and float away like faint clouds against the blue, and the great world lies like a splendid vision before us, and the immeasurable heavens break open to the highest, and in a sudden rift of human limitation the whole sublime order opens before us, sings to us out of the fathomless depths of its harmony, thrills us with a sudden sense of God and of the undiscovered range and s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217169790 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217169791 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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