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And Pippa Dances; (a Mystical Tale of the Glass-Works, in Four Acts)
And Pippa Dances - a Mystical Tale of the Glass-Works, in Four Acts Author:Gerhart Hauptmann General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: R.G. Badger Subjects: Drama / Continental European Foreign Language Study / Italian Literary Criticism / Drama 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 b... more »uy 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 books for free. Excerpt: A By Helen Sharpsteen S lilies 'neath the feet of May Sprang, marking where she trod, So springs each year a flower-sweet day Beneath the smile of God. And it is ours to bend each year And pluck the warm sweet rose, Renewing memories fragrant, dear, The day's heart doth enclose. Dear hands I loved when long ago You took my heart and me, Dear eyes through which alone I know The joys of things to be; -- Take once again, in symbolwise, This day -- which doth renew The fragrance of those memories, -- All that belongs to you. Ill Three days that mark the sum of life, Marking the sum of love, A trinity with meanings rife For us to take thereof. One day that opened life with love, One day love's own caress, And one the sum of all to prove, To crown, confirm, and bless. STEVENSON By Alexander Jessop LOOKING at the features of Stevenson, one is tempted to exclaim, in the language of the painter enraptured before the respondent model, 'Character, character, is what he has!' As it is true of the man himself, so may it be said of his writings, 'Character, character is what they have!' Plainly, Stevenson is a writer with a style -- a writer for the sake of a style, some have been heard to expostulate. In truth, Stevenson is a writer with several styles, each one of which is best adapted to set forth the message of its own particular subject. Yet, though the glow and glitter of language are music to him, they make but tunes after all; ...« less