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Grandmother's Story and Other Poems; My Hunt After the Captain and Other Papers
Grandmother's Story and Other Poems My Hunt After the Captain and Other Papers Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com... more » where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 5 Of Wituwamet's pictured knife And Pecksuot's whooping shout; For the baby's limbs were feeble, Though his father's arms were stout. His home was a freezing cabin, 10 Too bare for the hungry rat, Its roof was thatched with ragged grass, And bald enough of that; The hole that served for casement Was glazed with an ancient hat; i5 And the ice was gently thawing From the log whereon he sat. Along the dreary landscape His eyes went to and fro, The trees all clad in icicles, 20 The streams that did not flow; A sudden thought flashed o'er him, -- A dream of long ago, -- , He smote his leathern jerkin, And murmured, " Even so!" 25" Come hither, God-be-Glorified, And sit upon my knee, Behold the dream unfolding, Whereof I spake to thee By the winter's hearth in Leyden 30 And on the stormy sea ; True is the dream's beginning, -- So may its ending be ! 25. The Puritans permitted two classes of names for their children, -- proper names directly from the Bible, and names expressive of religious sentiment, as Praise-God, Live-Well, and the like. " I saw in the naked forest Our scattered remnant cast, 35 A screen of shivering branches Between them and the blast; The snow was falling round them, The dying fell as fast ; I looked to see them perish, 40 When lo, the vision passed. " Again mine eyes were opened ; -- The feeble had waxed strong, The babes had grown to sturdy men, The remnant was a throng; 45 By shadowed lake and winding stream, And all the shores along, The howling demons quaked to hear The Christian's god...« less