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. 1906 Excerpt: ... Though it's true my coat was thin and bare That he might be garmented fitly there. But it cut me, at first, to the quick, when he Turned with a freezing look from me--Maybe, I had said something wild; My head was dazed when I thought of the child, And what he had grown with the help of me, And what in the future he ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ... Though it's true my coat was thin and bare That he might be garmented fitly there. But it cut me, at first, to the quick, when he Turned with a freezing look from me--Maybe, I had said something wild; My head was dazed when I thought of the child, And what he had grown with the help of me, And what in the future he yet might be: --Still it was wrong, and I see it now, So to intrude with empty and vain Thoughts of myself; and I ought to bow To the fit rebuke, though it gave me pain, As I crept away home in the dripping rain. Of course, he loves me, I surely know it, But that was not the right time to show it; And nobody likes, in the hour of his pride, To have shabby old friends creeping up to his side. What a brain he has for clearness and power! What a grasp of principles and details! What would take you a year, he will seize in an hour; And then his courage too never fails. He may be Lord High Chancellor yet, But he will write as a scholar no less (To think that a part of me may be set To give law from the woolsack, or teach from the press!) None of your idle poems, or flash Essays, biographies, tales, or trash, But solid workYfor the thoughtful few, Writ with a golden pen and true. I know it is in him. I put it there, And he will bring it out clear and fair, When legal briefs and affairs of state Slacken enough to give him leisure.--But that must be soon, for I may not wait Many more days for the Psalmist's date, When years are a burden, and not a pleasure. Hard, hard he works for the fame he seeks Through the busy term, and the holiday weeks; Yet he never is weary, never complains, Knows nothing of sickness, or aching pains, Or a wish for rest, or bile-clogged brains. That is the fruit of our happy days By the windy shores, and the wooded braes. Wonderf..
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Revised Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xii, 624. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at spine. Frontis portrait. Publisher's retained copy with their neat 'File Copy' stamp to front endpaper. Front inner hinge slightly cracked, otherwise sound, very good.
