Annals of a Doss HouseG. Allen, 1900 - 200 strani Short stories about characters living in a boarding house. One with an Australian setting. |
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Stran 83 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Stran 200 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming Love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. 5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save, When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.
Stran 199 - For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is God our Father dear; And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is man, His child and care. For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace, the human dress.
Stran 86 - There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold, But one was out on the hills away, Far off from the gates of gold — Away on the mountains wild and bare, Away from the tender Shepherd's care. " Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine ; Are they not enough for Thee...
Stran 162 - O, he lives in the Moony light ! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the Comforter of Night. Seek Love in the Pity of others...
Stran 96 - ... for the moment's sympathy let part My sight and sense of truth, Thy precious boon, My painful earnings, lost, all lost, as soon, Almost, as gained : and though aside I start, Belie Thee daily, hourly, — still Thou art, Art surely as in heaven the sun at noon ; How much so e'er...
Stran 116 - But it is written that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation...
Stran 80 - We shall know each other better when the mists have rolled away.