Charles Kingsley (Volume 1900); His Letters and Memoirs of His Life (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Excerpt: ... "'She clasped her new-born baby, poor Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree, Barura, Barum, &c. 11 cannot ride Vindictive, as any man might see, And I will not ride Vindictive, with this baby on my knee; lie's killed a boy, he's killed a man, and why must he kill me?' 3 "' Unless you ride Vindictive, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree, Unless you ride Vindictive to-day at Coulterlee, And land him safe across the brook, and win the race for me, It's you may keep your baby, for you'll get no keep from me.' 4 "' That husbands could be cruel, ' said Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree, That husbands could be cruel, I have known for seasons three; But oh to ride Vindictive while a baby cries for me, And be killed across a fence at last for all the world to see ' 5 "She mastered young Vindictive--Oh the gallant lass was she, And kept him straight and won the race as near as near could be; But he killed her at the brook against a pollard willow tree; Oh he killed her at the brook, the brute, for all the world to see. And no one but the baby cried for poor Lorraine, Lorree." CHAPTER XXVIII. 1874--5- Aged 55. Return from America--Work at Eversley--Illness at Westminster-- New anxiety--Last Sermons in the Abbey--Leaves the Cloisters for ever--Last return to Eversley--The Valley of the Shadow of Death--Illness and departure--Rest at last--Answered prayers-- His Burial--Funeral sermons--Letters of sympathy--The true and perfect Knight--The Victory of Life over Death. "Death, beautiful, wise, kind Death, when will you come and tell me what I want to know?" C. K. "Out of God's boundless bosom, the fount of life, we came; through selfish stormy youth, and contrite tears--just not too late; through manhood not altogether useless; through slow and chill old age, we return whence we came, to the Bosom of God once more--to g...