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................................................................................................................................................ 140 THE SPRING RUNNING..................................................................................................................................... 141 THE OUTSONG ................................................................

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..................................................................... 140 THE SPRING RUNNING ............................................................... ...y might hurt the Man-cub. We must wait and see how the mohwa blooms.” That spring the mohwa tree, that Baloo was so fond of, never flowered. The green... ...der the yoke. So low was I brought that I think I should not have dared to spring if he had been loose. Wou!” Mowgli laughed. “Yes, we be great hunter... ... wish so, very greatly,” bleated a young fawn, who had only been born that spring, and did not at all like it. Wretched as the Jungle People were, eve... ...lazy. Each wished to eat where he lay, as sometimes we can do now when the spring rains are good. Tha, the First of the Elephants, was busy making new... ...rhead they could hear furious short yells that were drowned in a roar like breakers—the roar of the wings of the Little People of the Rocks. Some of t...

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...I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT ................................................................................................................... 17 SPRING SONG ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME ...........................

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.......................................................................... 17 SPRING SONG .................................................................. ................................................. 40 IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING ....................................................................... ................................................... 58 FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING ....................................................................... .......................................................................... 74 SPRING CAROL.................................................................. ...ith the very feel of tears. 18 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) SPRING SONG The air was full of sun and birds, The fresh air sparkled clear... ...re wild and wide; O’er many a salt, o’er many a desert mile, The unchained breakers ride, The quivering stars beguile. Hope bears the sole command; Ho...

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...tion, which sought noth- ing beyond itself (as a child burdens itself with spring flow- ers, thinking of no use beyond the enjoyment of gathering them... ...of sight with a favourable wind, and I remained awaiting his return by the breakers of that sea which was about to engulf him. He spent a week at Pisa... ...s as breathed around like odorous winds _75 Of wakening spring arose, Filling the chamber and the moonlight sky. Maiden, the world’... ...tumn proudly bears her matron grace, Kindling a flush on the fair cheek of Spring, Whose virgin bloom beneath the ruddy fruit Reflects its tint and bl... ...ose on its stalk, Though frosts may blight the freshness of its bloom, Yet spring’s awakening breath will woo the earth, T o feed with kindliest dews ... ...f starry ice the grey grass and bare boughs; _10 If spring’s voluptuous pantings when she breathes Her first sweet kisses, have...

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...named the different places in Europe where Lord Ormont and Murat were both springing to the saddle at the same time—one a Marshal, the other a lieuten... ...igned Ormont, was a born subject for the anti- thetical craftsmen’s tricky springes. He was, additionally, of infamous repute for morale in bur- gess ... ...able moods. He misjudged her. Like a swimmer go- ing through warm and cold springs of certain lake waters, he thought her a capricious ladyship, dange... ...soothingly pathetic. It smothered and barked at the dreams of her blooming spring of life, to which her mind had latterly been turning back, for an es... ...agnell less arduous. The presence of a woman of tongue, perpetually on the spring to gratify him and win him, was among the burdens he bore for his Am... ...lls hanging in her cranium. She patronized blasphemous and traitorous law- breakers, just to keep up the pluck of the people, not with a notion of mai...

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..................................................................... 66 SONG—SPRING........................................................................ ................................................................... 396 TARDY SPRING ....................................................................... ...them: nor could Nature’s care With subtler sweet beneficence Have fed the springs of penitence, Still keeping true, though harshly tried, The vital p... ...he flowers; It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; And like a thought of spring it comes and goes, Hanging its head beside our leafless bowers. The ... ...tions pure; Living and dying; letting faith ensure New life when deathless Spring shall touch the hills. Each perfect in its place; and each content W... ...wave! Here is a fitting spot to dig Love’s grave; Here where the ponderous breakers plunge and strike, And dart their hissing tongues high up the sand... ...thy voice shall bring to hand Salvation, and to thy torn land, Seen on the breakers. Now has come The day when thou canst not be dumb, Spirit of Russ... ... speech: an utterance Almost divine, and such as Hellespont, Crashing its breakers under Ida’s frown, Inspired: yet worthier he, whose instrument Wa...

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...t, dust to dust. She was at the source of things and dwelt beside the very springs of life, yet those deep wells from which she drew were of the waysi... ... the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings! Mirth is th... ...to the latch My hand, with trembling care, Lest back the awful door should spring, And leave me standing there. I moved my fingers off As cautiously a... ...ng, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. She felt herself supremer,— A raised, ethereal thing; Henceforth fo... ... butterfly, Extinguished in its sea. VIII BEFORE you thought of spring, Except as a surmise, You see, God bless his suddenness, A fellow in... ...ea, Sailing silently, Knowest thou the shore Ho! pilot, ho! Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o’er? In the silent west Many sails at...

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...en rise on the gale this the last of my lays, The coldest effusion which springs from my heart. This bosom, responsive to rapture no more, Sha... ...cite, To wing our moments with Delight. Rose by far the fairest birth, Which Spring and Nature cull from Earth— Rose with sweetest perfume given, Brea... ...petty spray Of my own years of trouble, which have roll’d Like a wild bay of breakers, melts away: Something—I know not what—does still uphold A spiri...

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...irm, thanks to an old elm which buttressed it in front, and which often in spring sent its young sprays through the window panes. My uncle was tolerab... ... a very loud voice tore me away from the pleasures of my dessert. With one spring I bounded out of the dining- room into the study. CHAPTER III THE RU... ...een done! A mortal man had had the audacity to penetrate! … “Ah!” I cried, springing up. “But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist up... ...rth; which I have done, Arne Saknussemm.” In reading this, my uncle gave a spring as if he had touched a Leyden jar. His audacity, his joy, and his co... ... in this case we should be baked, not enough to measure the temperature of springs or any matter in a state of fusion. 2. An aneroid barometer, to ind... ...assed through the grey clouds, and reappeared above the moving mists, like breakers emerg- ing in the heavens. 61 Jules Verne Often these chains of b... ..., against which the sea is breaking.” Hans climbs up the mast, but sees no breakers. The ocean’ is smooth and unbroken to its farthest limit. Three ho...

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...shed flower; Their summer gambols tell, and mourn, And anxious ask: “Will spring return, And birds and lambs again be gay, And blossoms clothe the ha... ... And in her glory reappears. But oh! my country’s wintry state What second spring shall renovate? What powerful call shall bid arise The buried warlik... ...their mingled streams could flow – Woe, wonder, and sensation high, In one spring-tide of ecstasy! It will not be—it may not last – The vision of ench... ... Sung to the billows’ sound; Thence to Saint Fillan’s blessed well, Whose springs can frenzied dreams dispel, And the crazed brain restore: Saint ... ...ams dispel, And the crazed brain restore: Saint Mary grant that cave or spring Could back to peace my bosom bring, Or bid it throb no more!” 29... ... of Percy’s name; And next, they crossed themselves, to hear The whitening breakers sound so near, Where, boiling through the rocks, they roar 43 Sir... ...s close; Then, answering from the sandy shore, Half-drowned amid the breakers’ roar, According chorus rose: Down to the haven of the is...

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...welt in affluence by the favour of his father Dionysus, in his home by the springs of Asopus. (ll. 118 121) From Argos came T alaus and Areius, sons ... ...ad been left behind with the younger he roes and he quickly bent his back springing bow against the monsters and brought them to earth one after an ... ... as it was, and the dwellers around in after times called that stream, the spring of Jason. And then they made a feast in honour of the goddess on the... ...tales would lead me far astray from my song. And quickly Hylas came to the spring which the people who dwell thereabouts call Pegae. And the dances of... ...g the woods; but one, a water nymph was just rising from the fair flowing spring; and the boy she perceived close at hand with the rosy flush of his ... ...ep the land of the Bithynians on your right and sail on, and beware of the breakers, until ye round the swift river Rhebas and the black beach, and re... ... away their sails and shattered in twain the hull, tossed as it was by the breakers. And hereupon by heaven’s prompting those four clutched a huge bea... ...e sea, where the deep water lies unmoved and dark; on each side roll white breakers with shining crests; and the way between for your passage out is n...

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... in fact, and not merely in fancy, farther from the orient of Aurora and the springs of day. I thought so then, by the railroad side in Pennsylvania, ... ...yoming, which I knew we were soon to enter, like an ice-bound whaler for the spring. Alas! and it was a worse country than the other. All Sunday and M... ... jetties of Monterey grow louder and larger in the distance; you can see the breakers leaping high and white by day; at night, the outline of the shor... ...l this country is the haunting presence of the ocean. A great faint sound of breakers fol- lows you high up into the inland canons; the roar of water ... ... pictured it; and at the rate at which trees grow, and at which forest fires spring up and gallop through the hills of California, we may look forward... ...eat field of ocean, and the ear is filled with a continuous sound of distant breakers on the shore. But the day of the Jesuit has gone by, the day of ... ...ne. And no sooner are these first dif- ficulties overcome, than fresh perils spring up upon the other side; and the bourgeois and the tourist are knoc... ... rising close in front, and as night draws in, the star of the Inchcape reef springing up on the one hand, and the star of the May Island on the other... ...ashing abroad from under- neath their guardian stone, the froth of the great breakers casting you headlong ere it had drowned your knees. Or you might...

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...the Heavens do move. 6 Rewards and Fairies Take of English flowers these— Spring’s full-faced primroses, Summer’s wild wide-hearted rose, Autumn’s wa... ...thought of setting his rabbit- wires there without leave, given fresh each spring, than he would have torn down the calico and marking ink notice on t... ..., they turned him out of doors and he took all his tools up the hill to Mr Springett’s yard, where he knew he could make as much mess as he chose. Old... ...ngett’s yard, where he knew he could make as much mess as he chose. Old Mr Springett was a builder, contractor, and sanitary engineer, and his yard, w... ...e Dan gouged and grunted at the carpenter’s bench near the loft window. Mr Springett and Dan had always been particular friends, for Mr Springett was ... ...s old Gaffer Macklin—but not quite so loud as young Copper. It sounds like breakers on a reef—a long way off. Comprenny?” ‘“Perfectly,” said Rene. “I ... ... reef—a long way off. Comprenny?” ‘“Perfectly,” said Rene. “I drive on the breakers. But before I strike, I shall save hundreds, thousands, millions p... ...s. Frankie fled inshore smack for the beach, till he was atop of the first breakers. Then he hove his anchor out, which nigh tore our bows off, but it... ...av- ern bench. When we could see, the Spanisher was laid flat along in the breakers with the snows whitening on his wet belly. He thought he could go ...

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...y, a summer’s day; Summer’s indeed a very dangerous season, And so is spring about the end of May; The sun, no doubt, is the prevailing rea... ... Although one must be damn’d for you, no doubt: I make a resolution every spring Of reformation, ere the year run out, But somehow, this my v... ... According to direction, then received A lecture and some money: for four springs He was to travel; and though Inez grieved (As every kind of... ...being well aware That a tight boat will live in a rough sea, Unless with breakers close beneath her lee. The worst of all was, that in their con... ...he frequent fog banks gave them cause to doubt— Some swore that they heard breakers, others guns, And all mistook about the latter once. As morn... ...for land, and thus their course they ran, Though right ahead the roaring breakers lay: A reef between them also now began To show its boilin... ...f your champagne, When o’er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring dew of the spirit! the heart’s rain! Few things surpass old wine... ...e bless’d sherbet, sublimed with snow, Nor the first sparkle of the desert spring, Nor Burgundy in all its sunset glow, After long travel, enn... ... There ‘s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ‘T was a raw day of Autumn’s bleak beginning,...

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...oss the promontory with a cheerful heart. I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland stock. But an unc... ...the brightness of the sea. From the very midst of the land, on a day of wind and a high spring, I have heard the Roost roar- ing, like a battle where ... ...roar- ing, like a battle where it runs by Aros, and the great and fearful voices of the breakers that we call the Merry Men. Aros itself – Aros Jay, I... ...t the seaward end there comes the strongest of the bubble; and it’s here that these big breakers dance together – the dance of death, it may be called... ...kelpie, that dwelt and did business in some fearful manner of his own among the boiling breakers of the Roost. A mermaid had once met a piper on Sanda... ...en out of Sandag Bay, but one small segment of the ho- rizon and, in heavy weather, the breakers flying high over a deep sea reef. From half-way down ... ....’ He obeyed without a word or a look, following slowly after my impatient strides. The spring seemed to have gone out of his body, and he scrambled h... ...et foot but once upon the mainland of the Ross. That once – it was in the height of the springs – he had passed dryshod while the tide was out; but, h... ...n who had played on Dr. Robertson was the same as the foreigner who visited Grisapol in spring, and now, with many others, lay dead under the Roost of...

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...re of the man, And not the Kaffir, Hottentot, Malay, Nor those horn-handed breakers of the glebe, But Homer, Plato, V erulam; even so With woman: and... ... tresses falsely brown, Shot sidelong daggers at us, a tiger-cat In act to spring. At last a solemn grace Concluded, and we sought th... ...than by single act Of immolation, any phase of death, We were as prompt to spring against the pikes, Or down the fiery gulf as talk of it, To compass ... ...with the old king across the lawns Beneath huge trees, a thousand rings of Spring In every bole, a song on every spray Of birds that piped their V ale... ...ames and heroines of the golden year Shall strip a hundred hollows bare of Spring, To rain an April of ovation round Their statues, borne aloft, the t... ...n back to men: Then reign the world’s great bridals, chaste and calm: Then springs the crowning race of humankind. May these things be!’ ...

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...e-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. Hod Putt HERE I lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Wh... ...wn MAURICE, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree. The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass, The stars sparkle, the whippoorwil... ... pillow? Dora Williams WHEN Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just deceased left him a fort... ...ge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable and bitter, Driving the jury t... ...running nose, And voids its essence all over you; Then bites your hand and springs away. And there you stand bleeding and smelling to heaven Why, Mary... ..., In spite of attacks of newspapers like the Clarion; A regular visitor at Springfield When the Legislature was in session To prevent raids upon the r...

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...me, and blotting the night with smoke, Ballads 23 Blazed and were smelted together the bones of all his folk. He fled unguided at first; but hearing ... ...e: Robert Louis Stevenson 24 A boat to be seized by stealth, a wife to be taken by rape. Still was the dark lagoon; beyond on the coral wall, He saw ... ...he top of the reef, a man with a flaming brand Walked, gazing and pausing, a fish-spear poised in his hand. The foam boiled to his calf when the might... ...pped with a crack in twain, And the man came slack in his hands and tumbled a lump at his feet. Ballads 25 One moment: and there, on the reef, where ... ... Ballads 29 Raised on a noble terrace and with tikis* at the door. Within it was full of riches, for he served his nation well, And full of the sound... ...d clasp and sunder and kiss, with lovely laughter and sighs, “Rua!” – “Taheia, my love,” – “Rua, star of my night, Clasp me, hold me, and love me, sin...

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...he return voyage, and to many a meeting in the sanded inn, when those who had parted in the spring of youth should again drink a cup of kindness in th... ...sion. It was in vain for me to argue that here was pleasure ready-made and running from the spring, whereas his ploughs and butter-churns were but mea... ...he people’s annual bellyful of corn and steam-engines. It may be argued that these opinions spring from the de- fect of culture; that a narrow and pin... ...28 Essays of Travel and leisure, keeps his mind ignorant of larger thoughts; and that hence springs this overwhelming concern about diet, and hence th... ... and the great boats, which required extra hands, were once drawn up on shore till the next spring, he worked as a labourer about chemical furnaces, o... ...e gardens on the Roccabruna-road; no nook upon Saint Martin’s Cape, haunted by the voice of breakers, and fragrant with the threefold sweetness of the...

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...n we stand beyond the range. On the contrary, they reflect sombrely on the springs of hilarity in the generation preceding us; with due reserve of cre... ...ly material, not at all the spiritual. It is most true that sentimentalism springs from the former, merely and badly aping the latter,—fine flower, or... ...upper. If I’m struck, I strike back. I keep my pistols for bandits and law-breakers. Here,’ said Mr. Redworth, better inspired as to the way of treati... ...s!’ encouraged Lady Dunstane to suppose her husband quite mistaken. In the Spring Diana, went on a first pilgrimage to her old home, The Crossways, an... ...ut for a walk, at Lady Dunstane’s request. It was a delicious afternoon of Spring, with the full red disk of sun dropping behind the brown beech-twigs... ...ot, barred a gate, and pointed to a new direction of the road on that fine spring morning, when beech-buds were near the burst, cowslips yellowed the ... ...rse of time, luxurious yachting, my friend, will encounter other reefs and breakers than briny ocean’s! Capital, whereat Diana W arwick aimed her supe...

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...at mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till envious ivy did... ...ng prompts the linnet’s blithest lay, All Nature’s children feel the matin spring Of life reviving, with reviving day; And while yon little bark gl... ...is mossy rock to me Worth splendid chair and canopy; Nor would my footstep spring more gay In courtly dance than blithe strathspey, Nor half so please... ...py hill thy breast, Burst down like torrent from its crest; With short and springing footstep pass The trembling bog and false morass; Across the broo... ...ntle gray, As the lone heron spreads his wing, By twilight, o’er a haunted spring.’ “Tis Blanche of Devan,’ Murdoch said, ‘ A crazed and captive Lowla... ... Shall never stem the billows more, Deserted by her gallant band, Amid the breakers lies astrand,— So on his couch lay Roderick Dhu! And oft his fever... ...monious close; Then, answering from the sandy shore, Half-drowned amid the breakers’ roar, According chorus rose.” The MS. reads here: “ At each accor...