BlockThe Presbyterian of the South : [Combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian, 1909-07-28
The front page of 1909-07-28. 206 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.
Front page text
206 wordsEach block below is one column or story as the page set it. This is microfilm of 1900s newsprint, so the reading carries mistakes; nothing has been corrected, because correcting a name invents one. Blocks that read as noise rather than language were dropped whole.
We mean to slacken this feveri That is wearing our very souls a1 And grant to our hearts a hush That is only enough to let them The footsteps of angels drawing 1 We mean to do it. Oh, never dc When the burden of daytime bi We'll sit and muse while the star As the patriarchs sat in the do Of their tents with a heavenward j To watch for angels passing by. We've seen them afar at high noc When fiercely the world's hot f Yet never have bidden them turn To tarry in converse sweet; Nor prayed them to hallow the ch To drink of our wine and break ot We promise our hearts that when Of the life work reaches the loi When the weight that we groan v
We'll welcome such calm repose As banishes care's disturbing din, And then?we'll call the artgels i Inc day that we dreamed of com When tired of every mocking { And broken in spirit and shorn of < We drop at the door of rest, And wait and watch as the day w But the angels we meant xb calL s iw and to tbe tlesttmonp. ft it ifi b??AUA? thm <? tlrt Hn
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