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Identifier: libraryofworldsbv28warn (find matches)
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives
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) — <(I will not stay my journey, Nor halt by any town,Near any sparkling fountain, Where the waters wimple down:The mothers coming to the well Would know the babes they bore;The wives would clasp their husbands, Nor could I part them more. Romaic. * Modern Greek poetry assigns to Charon, not only the duty of ferrying hiscargo across the Styx, but the function formerly assumed by Hermes, of con-ducting the souls of the dead to the underworld.
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PSYCHE AND CHARONFrom a Painting by A Zick BONOS HV.MNs AND LYRICS 16827 THE WILD RIDE Iiii \R in my /hint, I hear in its ominous pulses.All dax tin- commotion oj v, mant-tossing horses, All Wight from their cells the importunate tramping and neighing. Cowards and laggards fall back; but alert to the saddle, (legion,Straight, grim, and abreast, vault our weather-worn, galloping With stirrup-cup each to the one gracious woman that loves him. The road is through dolor and dread, over 1 ragS and morasses;There are shapes by the way, there are things to entice us:What odds? We are knights, and our souls are but bent on the riding. Thoughts self is a vanishing wing, and joy is a cobweb,And friendship a flower in the dust, and her pitiful beauty!We hurry with never a word in the track of our fathers. / hear in mv heart. I hear in its ominous pulses. All day the commotion of sineiow mane-tossing horses, All night from their cells the importunate tramping and neighing. We spur to a land of no
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