This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...AN INTERESTINO INSTANCE OF HUMANITY TO A HORSE. We read who tamed the daring Of bold Bucephalus: But deeds of gentler bearing Stand not recorded thus: These take no rank in story, They deck no polish'd page, Yet, in their modest glory, Might teach a boasting age. Oh! it is sweetly cheering When noiseless acts are done ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...AN INTERESTINO INSTANCE OF HUMANITY TO A HORSE. We read who tamed the daring Of bold Bucephalus: But deeds of gentler bearing Stand not recorded thus: These take no rank in story, They deck no polish'd page, Yet, in their modest glory, Might teach a boasting age. Oh! it is sweetly cheering When noiseless acts are done Of Love and quiet goodness, If to Life's lowliest one! Though Hist'ry's roll of treasure Their legends ne'er will keep, They touch some hearts with pleasure, Thankful, and warm, and deep. - Alexander of Macedon. Unlike to Nero's mother, Or Byron's, sure was thine. Thou pitying human hrother! Stranger--of heart henign! Sure she was gently loving! And not to thee alone; But with a bosom moving For suffering's every groan. Oh! ye! who childhood watching, The heart's first impulse guide! An hourly influence catching In lessons at your side; Teach ye that law of kindness To all the brute oppress'd, Too oft, in guilty blindness Neglected, or repress'd. Begin, in life's young morning: Untiring, watchful be: Chide the first early dawning Of childish cruelty: Respect, in Being's station, Each moving, living thing; Each right of dumb creation, Ev, n of an insect's wing; Then, then, no tyrant Roman, f Who murd'ring flies was found, Shall History's future gnomon Point on your household ground: Agrippina the Younger. t Domitian. Then shall no human demon From your loved hearths arise, To ravage lands of freemen, To light War's reddening skies! When I can keep my conscience clear, Great God! from wilful sin, 1 shed the blissful, precious tear Which flows from peace within. I lift my glowing heart on high Whence strength and power are given, And, grateful, own the victory Was not of me, but Heaven. O! might I put this armor on, For ever pure and bright, ...
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