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Paradise Regained

By: John Milton

...t, Or in Perea, but return’d in vain. Then on the bank of Jordan, by a Creek: 25 Where winds with Reeds, and Osiers whisp’ring play Plain Fis... ... With that (such power was giv’n him then) he took The Son of God up to a Mountain high. It was a Mountain at whose verdant feet A spatious pla... ... and there was room For barren desert fountainless and dry. To this high mountain top the Tempter brought 265 Our Saviour, and new train of words... ...unity pursues. He brought our Saviour to the western side 25 Of that high mountain, whence he might behold Another plain, long but in bredth not ... ...phal Arcs, Gardens and Groves presented to his eyes, Above the highth of Mountains interpos’d. By what strange Parallax or Optic skill 40 Of vi...

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In Memoriam

By: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

...g as of old we walk’d Beside the river’s wooded reach, The fortress, and the mountain ridge, The cataract flashing from the bridge, 15 The breaker brea... .... XCVI. 107 XCVI. MY love has talk’d with rocks and trees; He finds on misty mountain ground His own vast shadow glory crown’d; He sees himself in all... ...haunts of hern and crake; Or into silver arrows break 15 The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blo... ... lighted town, The white faced halls, the glancing rills, And catch at every mountain head, And o’er the friths that branch and spread 115 Their sleep...

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Second April

By: Edna Saint Vincent Millay

...ll come, and wander slow Over an indifferent land, Stand beside an empty creek, Hold a dead seed in her hand.” God had called us, and we came, B... ...le; And the bottom of the sea Was as brittle as a bowl; And the timbered mountain-top Was as naked as a skull,— Nothing left, nothing left, Of t... ... Cat birds call Through the long afternoon, and creeks at dusk Are guttural. Whip-poor-wills wake and cry, Drawing the twi... ...ints and lovers, T ravelers, goblins, thieves, Suns that shine by night, Mountains made from valleys,— Bear me to the light, Flat upon your bellie... ...ped of its secret, open, stark and bleak, Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek,— Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes My heart. I k... ...last I sighed and went away. There is a garden lying in a lull Between the mountains and the mountainous sea, I know not where, but which a dream diur... ...ever and frail sweat Of human love,—renounce for these, I say, The Singing Mountain’s memory, and betray The silent lyre that hangs upon me yet? Ah, b...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

..., were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters pre- vail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all esh died that moved upon the earth, bot... ...e seventh month, Genesis 11 on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth... ...th: in the tenth month, on the rst day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah o... ... Sodom and Gomorrah ed, and fell there; and they that remained ed to the mountain. 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the... ...e; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my ... ...And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, t...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...y’s climb—and came out on a line of snow-peaks that banded all the horizon—mountains from fifteen to twenty thousand feet high, looking almost near en... ... tiny terraced fields lay out like aprons of patchwork on the knees of the mountain, and cows no big- ger than beetles grazed between the smooth stone... ...“No blame to my broth- ers that they did not sit by the fire to-night. The mountain is falling. And yet— why should I go?” His eye fell on the empty b... ...r side, while the Bhagat and his brethren followed. Up and up the opposite mountain they climbed, calling to each other by name—the roll-call of the v... ...s no trace. For one mile in width and two thousand feet in sheer depth the mountain-side had come away bodily, planed clean from head to heel. And the... ...th patches of yellow and dusky purple near and under the low banks. Little creeks ran into the river in the wet season, but now their dry mouths hung ... ... Fate. With good luck, a keen eye, and the custom of considering whether a creek or a backwater has an outlet to it ere you ascend, much may be done.”... ...ugger knows. As soon as the water has drained off, he creeps up the little creeks that men think would not hide a dog, and there he waits. Presently c... ...gle Book whole villages had walked into the water. They came out of little creeks one after another, as the logs come down in the Rains. When the rive...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

...holds for us. Not before 1770, (1) Viking (Ice. “Vikingr”; “vik”, a bay or creek, “ingr”, beloning to, (or men of) freebooters. 6 The V olsunga Saga ... ...The V olsunga Saga brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each ... ... 70 The V olsunga Saga CHAPTER XX Of Sigurd’s Meeting with Brynhild on the Mountain B Y LONG ROADS rides Sigurd, till he comes at the last up on to Hi... ...uch a deed might Sigurd alone have done, with whom I plighted troth on the mountain; and he is my first troth-plight, and my well-beloved.” Heimir sai... ...r the King.” And therewith she call to mind how they met, they two, on the mountain, and swore oath each to each. “But now is all changed and I will n...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...rom the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pi... ... Songs, In SION also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Begu... ...Thir Glory witherd. As when Heavens Fire Hath scath’d the Forrest Oaks, or Mountain Pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stan... ...consultations dark Ended rejoycing in thir matchless Chief: As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the North wind sleeps, ... ...h the shaggie hill Pass’d underneath ingulft, for God had thrown 225 That Mountain as his Garden mould high rais’d Upon the rapid current, which ... ... the Fowle be multiply’d on the Earth. Forthwith the Sounds and Seas, each Creek & Bay With Frie innumerable swarme, and Shoales 400 Of Fish that...

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The Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...cided to try snowboarding on my first trip of the skiing season to Montage Mountain. After watching my friends make a few runs, I went to the rental s... ...of the day, I was riding down the Black Diamond Slopes, the hardest on any mountain. Snowboarding, as I learned, is not just about balance and techniq... ...enior year I transferred from Rice High School in New York City to Pocono Mountain in northeastern Penn- sylvania. The first thing I did on registrat... ...can be seen while walking up the 1,064 steps that cling to the side of the mountain. The trail passes through a large elfin rainforest. The vegetation... ...ridge is said to be haunted by the ghost of a baby that was drowned in the creek below the bridge, early in the eighteenth century. The parents of the... ..., I put on my gloves and took the bike off the rack. Now I was ready to go mountain biking. Mountain biking is one of my favorite hobbies because it i... ...nto a single track, which drops off a twelve- foot bank and runs through a creek. Then it travels through a series of dips and turns that can compete ...

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The Other Side of Silence

By: Kline, Tony

...e Began Happening Those People At Dead Of Night O Universe Mutualisms The Silent Not Simply Self Night-Piece Too Much Mount Lu Meditating, Mountain Moment The Other Side of Silence Fall Bright Bird Her Sensitivities Nothing Returns The Un-opening Gate You, Futures Clear Creek White Sky Ash All of it Bodiless Think, Meditate, Contemplate Pine, Yew E...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...nward through scant clouds toward the tall Sequoias that lined the crest of the mountain. As the sweat dripped from his brow, looking for nothing in... ...come relief. Born and raised in the cool grey ofPuget Sound with its lush green mountains and friendly people, L.A. felt strange. The people here al... ...be­ tween Matloch, I.E., and Hawk, and I need to find it fast, or I'm up a shit creek without a paddle. Understand?" "Boss, they're hiding something... ... behind the wheel of her Mercedes. She negotiated the winding curves along the mountainous ridge and then, suddenly, a pair of high beam lights fla... ...more than thirty hours without sleep, ham­ mering chunks of rock deep inside the mountain, creating a slim path down the mine shaft and bringing up t... ... to store it in stable underground salt formations. Bury it in the Yucca Valley Mountains, and for­ get it. Others said we should send it into outer ...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

.... A little Norman sailing vessel was moored two evenings after in a lonely creek on the coast, and into it stepped M. de Ribaumont, with his Bible, Ma... ...; stoop down, Ribaumont; a word with you. Y our mat- ters have gone up the mountains, as the Italians say, with mine. But never fear. Keep silence, an... ...first bring word to Master Philip that the young lord and lady were in the creek. Philip gave his pony no rest, between the lock-out on the downs and ... ...his pony no rest, between the lock-out on the downs and the borders of the creek; but day after day passed, and still the smacks from Jersey held no p... ...ter Hobbs, without taking his gaze off the coast, ‘but by yonder banks and creeks this should be the Sables d’Olonne; and I do not see the steeple of ... ... daughter, her infant, and a donkey, had been found bewildered between the creeks on a sandbank, where they stood still and patient, like a picture of... ...nd pined for him as she kept her flock, made the rivulets, the brooks, the mountains re-echo with her sighs and plaints, and had wandered through the ... ...fter some years more, it was entirely destroyed. The grounds of the Auriol Mountain Monastery have been desolate down to the present day, when they ha... ...e washed, declaring that they put him in mind of his old hardy days on the mountains of Bearn. He insisted on hearing all Rayonette’s adventure in det...

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