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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: AGATHA. Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks Soar harsh above the troops of hurrying pines, But where the earth spreads soft and rounded hreasts To feed her children; where the generous hills Lift a green isle betwixt the sky and plain To keep some Old World things aloof from change. Here too 't is hill and hollow: new-born streams With sweet enforcement, joyously compelled Like laughing children, hurry down the steeps, And make a dimpled chase athwart the stones; Pine woods are black upon the heights, the slopes Are green with pasture, and the bearded corn Fringes the blue above the sudden ridge: A little world whose round horizon cuts This isle of hills with heaven for a sea, Save hi clear moments when southwestward gleams France by the Ehine, melting anon to haze. The monks of old chose here their still retreat, And called it by the Blessed Virgin's name, Sancta Maria, which the peasant's tongue, Speaking from out the parent's heart that turns All loved things into little things, has made Sanct Ma'rgen ? Holy little Mary, dear As all the sweet home things she smiles upon, The children and the cows, the apple-trees, The cart, the plough, all named with that caress Which feigns them little, easy to be held, Familiar to the eyes and hand and heart. What though a Queen ? She puts her crown away And with her little Boy wears common clothes, Caring for common wants, remembering That day when good Saint Joseph left his work To marry her with humble trust sublime. The monks are goiie, their shadows fall no more Tall-frocked and cowled athwart the evening fields At milking-time; their silent corridors Are turned to homes of bare-armed, aproned men, Who toil for wife and children. But the bells, Pealing on high from two quaint convent ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217740364 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217740367 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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