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Nelson's Literature Readers, Selected and Annotated by R. Garnett
Nelson's Literature Readers Selected and Annotated by R Garnett Author:Richard Garnett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 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 where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 3. PARTED FRIENDSHIP. Alas ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline : Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They parted -- ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining ; They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, -- But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. From " Christdbel" Part II., S. T. Coleridge. Listen not to a tale-bearer or a slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. -- Socrates. The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. -- -Dean Sicift. When will evil-speakers refrain from evil-talking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing. -- Archdeacon Hare. 4. THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW. The house-swallow, or chimney-swallow, is undoubtedly the first comer of all the British swallows, and appears in general on or about the 13th of April, as I have remarked from many years' observation. Not but now and then a straggler is seen much earlier; and, in particular, when I was a boy, I observed a swallow for a whole day together on ...« less