The Philistine, Svazek 17

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Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard
The Society, 1903

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Strana 48 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on! ' They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow. Until at last the blanched mate said: " Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way. For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave admiral, speak and say He said: "Sail on! Sail on, and on!
Strana 47 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind, the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said:'' Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?
Strana 166 - I give to good fathers and mothers in trust for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names...
Strana 33 - In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Strana 48 - Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say"— He said, "Sail on! sail on! and on!
Strana 48 - My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak." The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Strana 48 - The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on! " Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck. And peered through darkness. Ah. that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck A light!
Strana 166 - And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject nevertheless to the rights hereinafter given to lovers.
Strana 166 - That part of my interests which is known in law and recognized in the sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderable and of none account, I make no disposition of in this, my will. My right to live, being but a life estate, is not -at my disposal, but, these things excepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath.
Strana 168 - I leave to them the power to make lasting friendships, and of possessing companions, and to them exclusively, I give all merry songs and brave choruses to sing with lusty voices.

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