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The higher Rock. LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I. Psalm 61:2. This is a humble cry: the cry of a soul needing help—a soul looking outside of and beyond self for aid and succor. Strange and unusual as it is to hear it, it is the most rational cry that the human soul ever uttered. It cannot...

Genesis A, B Verse Indeterminate Unknown Us is riht micel æt we rodera weard, wereda wuldorcining, wordum herigen, modum lufien! He is mægna sped, heafod ealra heahgesceafta, 5 frea ælmihtig. Næs him fruma æfre, or geworden, ne nu ende cymþ ecean drihtnes, ac he bi a rice ofer heofenstolas. Heagum þrymmum sofæst and swifeorm sweglbosmas heold, 10

Over a “Gasper.” “To-morrow? To-morrow, my dear Claude! Why, there may not be a to-morrow for you—or for me, when it comes to that—eh?” “Yes. You’re quite right, old son,” was my cheerful reply. “I’m quite aware that these experiments are confoundedly dangerous—and, besides, there...

ON THE ROAD TO OAK KNOWE “This way for the Queen!” “Here you are for the Duke of Connaught! Right this way!” “Want the Metropole, Miss?” “Room there, stupid! She’s from the States—any fool could see that! I’m from your hotel, little lady, the American. Your luggage, Miss, allow me

ON THE CANYON TRAIL. “Hello, there! What in the name of reason is this?” The horseman’s excited cry was echoed by a startled neigh from his beast, which wheeled about so suddenly that he nearly precipitated both himself and rider into the gulch below. “Oh! I’m sorryHold on, Zu! Go! Do, please....

ON THE TRAIN “Maryland, my Maryland!” dreamily hummed Dorothy Calvert. “Not only your Maryland, but mine,” was the resolute response of the boy beside her. Dorothy turned on him in surprise. “Why, Jim Barlow, I thought nothing could shake your allegiance to old New York state; you’ve told me so yourself dozens of times, and

The martyr Aikaterina was the daughter of a rich and noble prince of Alexandria. She was very beautiful, and being at the same time highly talented, she devoted herself to Greek literature as well as to the study of the languages of all nations, and so she became wise and learned. And it happened that...

A cold sweet, silvery life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt. Help me, Cassius, or I sink

All through my busy years of prose writing I have occasionally jotted down idle thoughts in rhyme. Imagining ideal scenes, ideal characters, and then, as is the way, I suppose, with more ambitious poets, trying to put myself inside the personalities I have invoked, trying to feel as they would be likely...

Sorrir é bom quando se tem ventura ou quando, ao menos, feiticeira esp'rança; arfa a existencia em mares de bonança, rompe a alvorada sempre amena e pura. Meiga rolinha de encantadas selvas Como me encanta o teu gentil cantar! Por ti perdera a mocidade, a vida... —Mas eu não posso, não te devo...

HOW TO WRITE THE BUSINESS LETTER: 24 chapters on preparing to write the letter and finding the proper viewpoint; how to open the letter, present the proposition convincingly, make an effective close; how to acquire a forceful style and inject originality; how to adapt selling appeal to different prospects...

“SMOOTH” BRODY, due to receive fifteen yards in cash from the successful hijacking he had led the night before, let himself into the private office of Jimmy Claffey without knocking, lounged over to the desk. “Slip me,” he said to the chief of the High- Jack-Game mob. “Surest thing you know,...

One day, not many years ago, while walking along a street in Detroit, Michigan, I was stopped by a ragged and forlorn beggar, with the request for a few cents to buy something to eat. I gave him a dime and walking on a few paces stopped to observe his following movements. Contrary to my supposition...

Estos, Fabio, ¡ay dolor!, que ves ahora Campos de soledad, mustio collado, Fueron un tiempo Itálica famosa... (Rodrigo Caro.—A las ruinas de Itálica.) INVENTARIAR los monumentos de un país es renovar su Poesía y acrecer su Historia. El pasado, como el espíritu, no muere, sino que, libre de las...