A Practical Reader; With Exercises in Local Culture (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: away? The red sunset sank behind the dark olive-green of the hills; a pale, clear twilight took its place and shone over those mystic ruins that were the object of many a thought and many a pilgrimage in the far past and forgotten years; then the stars began to glimmer as the distant shores and the sea grew dark; a wonderful radiance rose behind the low hills; across the waters of the Sound came a belt of quivering light as the white moon sailed slowly up into the sky. There was an odor of new-mown hay in the night air. Far away they could hear the murmuring of the waves around the rocks. They did not speak a word as they walked along to those solemn ruins overlooking the sea, that were now a mass of mysterious shadow except where the eastern walls and the tower were touched by the silvery light that had just come into the heavens.?Macleod of Dare. COMPENSATION. Frances Ridley Haveugal. Oh, the compensating springs! Oh, the balance-wheels of life, Hidden away in the workings under the seeming strife! Slowing the fret and the friction, weighting the whirl and the force Evolving the truest power from each unconscious source. How shall we gauge the whole, who can only guess a part? How can we read the life when we cannot spell the heart? How shall we measure another, we who can never know Prom the juttings above the surface, the depth of the vein below'/ Even onr present way is known to ourselves alone, Height and abyss and torrent, flower and thorn and stone; But we gaze on another's path as a far-off mountain scene, Scanning the outlined hills, but never the vales between. The easy path in the lowland hath little of grand or new, But a toilsome ascent leads onward to a wide and glorious view; Peopled and warm is the valley, lonely and chill the height; But the pe...