Anna Bartlett Warner
My brother's keeper
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com May 12, 2012)
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. 1866 Excerpt: ...the beauty on which my love was set, Hath my heart's deep reverence now. That wish of my life, it doth not fade--My life and it are one. Yet well could I rest amid the shade, Were my flower but in the sun. DID YOU EVER KNOW HER? 193 My flower! my flowerl thy bended head Is dearer than worlds to me. I would give up life and take death instead, My flower's strong shield to be!' The song was not much in itself, certainly; but there was a power in the fine voice and the deep feeling and expression with which every word was given, that held tne listeners motionless; and from end to end of the still room was the song heard. It was not till the voice ceased, and the singer had played a few soft notes that might almost have been involuntary--so exactly did they carry out the spirit of the song; that the ladies recollected their pockethandkerchiefs, and Penn Raynor exclaimed, 'Who upon earth's that, Harry?' 'Who upon earth is what?' said his cousin striking another chord. 'Yes, did you ever know her,. Mr. Raynor?' said the lady of the house.. 'Did I ever know whom, ma'am?' he said half turning about. 'Why this lady of the song. There's no description given of her, either--I don't know how it is--but it is all so life-like that I feel as if I must have seen her. Is there really such a flower in the world?' It was with a singular smile that he heard her--a smile that to any keen eye would have said enough. But lightly touching the keys again, his answer was given with perfect gravity. ',If there be, MW Clinton, you will find it in the genus woman, and in that species where Nature and Christianity have both done their best.' 'OI have no doubt Mr. Raynor knows the original,' Baid Miss Arnet. 'He always had a preoccupied air,--as if he were saying to himself, " I ha...
- ISBN
- 1231586257 / 9781231586259
- Pages
- 104
- Weight
- 7.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 0.2 in.
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