The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Five hundred years have nearly passed away Since that glad morn, when o'er fair Bethl'hem's plainA light resplendent as the glow ...
Dear Canada, our native land, Our love for thee grows day by day;Our fathers left the olden strand, O'er sea and rapids ...
My old sweetheart is away to-day; I feel as I did of old,In my courting days, when far away I yearned for ...
O Thou, who art the source of joy and light, The great Revealer of the will Divine;Thyself Divine, all nature owns ...
This lovely lily, so pure and white,Seems covered o'er with celestial light;As if it grew on the "Tree of Life,"And ...
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Looking o'er this written page, Many blurs and blots are seen;Crooked strokes, at every stage-- Oh, that it again were clean,As at ...
The air is chill with the frost of doubt, And men's hearts are sadly failing;They do not hear the great Victor's ...
O God, I am ashamed to die, But not the least afraid;Tho' death's dark shadow draweth nigh, Atonement has been madeFor every ...
The well-built house with walls of brick, or stone,May tremble some if struck by the cyclone;The most established saint may ...
As fought the Paladins of old,With gleaming swords and spirit bold,To thwart the schemes of base Lothar,Give France to Karl ...
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