He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her.
Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell,
When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
I gave my life for freedom - This I know For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom the selfsame freedom you adore Bade us defend our violated shore.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
We bade adieu to love the old;
We heard another lover then,
Whose forms are myriad and untold,
Sigh to us from the hearts of men.
Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight,
But stay the time till we have bade good-night.
Some write their wrongs in marble he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust, Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
I was about to speak, when--"We are even
Now at the point I meant," said Maddalo,
And bade the gondolieri cease to row.
Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories