Golden Grain Garnered from the World's Great Harvest-field of Knowledge: Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore

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This book is a collection of the best selections of poetry, prose, and legendary lore from modern writers including Henry W. Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Alfred Tennyson among others. It contains lots of interesting short modern works with good appeal. The book consists of themes including love, romance, kindness, heroism, nobility, and bravery among others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547043744

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Golden Grain Garnered from the World's Great Harvest-field of Knowledge

Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore

EAN 8596547043744

DigiCat, 2022

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GOLDEN GRAIN

HARVEST SONG.

MINUTE MEN OF LIBERTY.

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.

SONG OF THE BROOK.

EULOGY ON GARFIELD.

GEMS FROM JAS. A. GARFIELD.

AT THE FIRESIDE.

THE FROST SPIRIT.

THE ARROW AND THE SONG.

THE BRIDGE.

GRANDMA'S ANGEL.

COLD—BITTER COLD.

NOBODY'S CHILD.

SNOW-WHITE AND ROSY-RED.

THE SONG OF THE THRUSH.

THE FOX AND THE GEESE.

THE CHILDREN IN THE MOON.

A NIGHT IN A NORWEGIAN FOREST.

TWO LITTLE KITTENS.

THE LABOR OF AUTHORSHIP.

SHE WAS SOMEBODY'S MOTHER.

DOT LAMBS WHAT MARY HAF GOT.

BOB CRATCHIT'S CHRISTMAS.

A SNUG LITTLE ISLAND.

DON'T CROWD.

THE BOYS.

THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL.

FOR FATHER'S SAKE,

BACKBONE.

A DOG SHEEP-STEALER.

IF WE KNEW.

HOLIDAY SONG.

A QUEER DUCKLING.

THE CLEARIN'.

PRINCE WILLFUL'S THREE LESSONS.

MISS EDITH HELPS THINGS ALONG!

THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART.

BREAD ON THE WATERS.

HOW BAYARD SHOT THE BEAR.

NEW YEAR'S EVE.

EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON.

THE BABY IN THE HOME.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

THE KING OF THE NIGHT.

A 'RITHMETIC LESSON.

FAIRIES—OR FIRE-FLIES.

THE AMBITIOUS TWIG.

LITTLE LOTTIE'S GRIEVANCE.

THERE IS NO DEATH.

THE SIEGE OF TROY.

GEORGE NIDIVER.

MARCH AND THE BOYS.

THE CRUSADES.

PRIDE OF NATIVE LAND.

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE.

A BIRD'S STORY.

THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN KIDS.

BIRDIE AND BABY.

THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS.

ROCK ME TO SLEEP.

HEROISM.

MEASURING THE BABY.

THE ENGINEER'S STORY.

TWO BRAVE BOYS.

THE FLIGHT OF YEARS.

GOLDEN GRAIN

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GARNERED FROM THE

WORLD'S GREAT HARVEST-FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE

COMPRISING

Selections from the ablest Modern Writers.

OF

Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore

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Some Books with heaps of chaff are stored

And some do Golden Grain afford;

Leave then the chaff and spend thy pains

In gathering up the Golden Grains.

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Elegantly Illustrated.

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J.C. CHILTON & COMPANY,

DETROIT. MICH.,

1884.

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Presentation Page

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Meadow

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COPYRIGHTED

1884.

J.C. CHILTON & CO.

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PRESS OF

RAYNOR & TAYLOR,

75 BATES STREET.

DETROIT.

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AUTHORS

Henry W. Longfellow.

James Russell Lowell.Alfred Tennyson.

John G. Whittier.William Cullen Bryant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Hans Christian Andersen.Peter Christian Asbjornsen.

William Shakespeare.Sir Isaac Newton.Rev. Laurence Sterne.

Hon. John D. Long.John G. Saxe.Paul H. Hayne.

Charles Dickens.Sir Walter Scott.Thomas Moore.

Thomas Gray.Lord Lytton.J. C. F. Schiller.

George William Curtis.Martin van Buren.

George Washington.James A. Garfield.

Rev. Charles Kingsley.Barry Cornwall.

Phœbe Cary.Sidney Dayre.Lucie Cobb.

Phila H. Case.Lucy Larcom.Rose Hartwick Thorpe.

Mary D. Brine.Elizabeth Akers.Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.

George Mcdonald.Emma Alice Brown.Samuel Rogres.

Bret Harte.George L. Catlin.J. T. Choate.

George D. Prentice.Nathaniel P. Willis.

Edwin P. Whipple.Phillip James Bailey.

D. Bethune Duffield.William L. Smith.

Friederich Grimm.

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE.I

It

has been the constant endeavor of the publishers of GOLDEN GRAIN, to produce a book in every respect worthy to be classed among the very best works offered to an intelligent public.

Many of the selections are protected by copyright and for the use of such, special thanks are due to the following publishers, for the courtesies extended.

To Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for selections from Longfellow, Whittier, and Miss Cary; Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., for use of selections from Mrs. Piatt, Paul Hayne, and Mary D. Brine; and to those authors who have furnished special contributions, we are under many obligations.

The volume is sent forth with the belief that such a work will meet with appreciative readers all over the land.

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INTRODUCTION.Decoration.T

The

best introduction to a book is a glance at its pages, an examination of its illustrations and the names of its authors.

In all the essentials which go to make up a work which shall meet with popular favor and a wide range of readers, the Editor and Publishers confidently believe that GOLDEN GRAIN presents a high standard of excellence.

That all tastes might be suited, the literature of all modern nations has been searched and selections of the highest standard made therefrom.

Golden Grain only has been garnered. The great fields of knowledge have been visited, and none but the choicest and ripest kernels have been chosen.

Young Folks must, and will, have something to read—something to feed the mind as well as the body. It therefore becomes a very important duty of parents to make choice of such books as are pure in tone and elevating in sentiment; and it follows also, as night follows day, that if parents fail or neglect this duty the young folks themselves will find something to read, nor will they be so careful in their selections.

In GOLDEN GRAIN will be found a work in every respect worthy of a place in the Family Circle. Its pages lend inspiration to fight life's battles nobly. Those who go out from a home with noble impulses, pure motives, and true hearts will bear the burden of Earth's cares, duties and disappointments with patience and resignation, having

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute.

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CONTENTS.Heron

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Summer

SUMMER.

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HARVEST SONG.

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JOHN G. WHITTIER.

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O

O Painter

of the fruits and flowers! We thank Thee for thy wise design Whereby these human hands of ours In Nature's garden work with thine.

And thanks that from our daily need The joy of simple faith is born; That he who smites the summer weed, May trust Thee for the autumn corn.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.

For he who blesses most is blest; And God and man shall own his worth, Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth.

And, soon or late, to all that sow, The time of harvest shall be given; The flowers shall bloom, the fruit shall grow, If not on earth, at last in heaven!

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MINUTE MEN OF LIBERTY.

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Delivered on the one-hundredth anniversary of the battle of

Lexington, Mass., by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, April 19, 1875.

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After reviewing the leading incidents of the battle of Lexington, in 1775, and the subsequent victories of Washington; and closing with a brilliant picture of the final triumph of the Colonial troops, Mr. Curtis said:

"Not

such are our enemies to-day. They do not come proudly stepping to the drum-beat, with bayonets flashing in the morning sun. But wherever party spirit shall strain the ancient guarantees of Freedom, or bigotry and ignorance shall lay their fatal hands upon education, or the ignorance of caste shall strike at equal rights, or corruption shall poison the very springs of national life, there, Minutemen of Liberty are your Lexington-Green and Concord-Bridge, and as you love your country and your kind, and would have your children rise up and call you blessed, spare not the enemy! Over the hills, out of the earth, down from the clouds pour in resistless might.

NOT SUCH ARE OUR ENEMIES TO-DAY.

NOT SUCH ARE OUR ENEMIES TO-DAY.

Fire! fire from every rock and tree, from every door and window, from hearthstone and chamber; hang upon his flank and rear from noon to sunset, and so through a land blazing with holy indignation, hurl the hordes of ignorance, corruption and injustice back, back into utter defeat and ruin!"

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits.

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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.

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HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.

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B

Between

the dark and the daylight, When night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the children's hour.

I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.

From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

BLUE-EYED BANDITTI.

BLUE-EYED BANDITTI.

A whisper and then a silence; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together, To take me by surprise.

A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall, By three doors left unguarded, They enter my castle wall.

They climb up into my turret, O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.

They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me intwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen, In his Mouse Tower on the Rhine.

Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all?

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart.

And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin And moulder in dust away.

Cat Watching a Fish in a stream

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SONG OF THE BROOK.

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ALFRED TENNYSON.

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I come from haunts of coot and hern; I make a sudden sally; And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.

I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.

I chatter,