| “SEE THE VAST NUMBER OF THESE SNOW-WHITE DRESSES! SEE HOW EXTENSIVE IS OUR CITY!”.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARRAYED IN SEMBLANCE OF A SNOW-WHITE ROSE THAT HOLY ARMY WAS REVEALED TO SIGHT WHICH FOR HIS SPOUSE, IN DEATH OUR SAVIOUR CHOSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “VIEW NOW THE CIRCLES E’EN THE MOST REMOTE UNTIL THE QUEEN UPON HER THRONE THOU SEE’ST.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O SOVRAN LIGHT! WHO DOST EXALT THEE HIGH ABOVE ALL THOUGHTS THAT MORTAL MAY CONCEIVE, O PLENTEOUS GRACE THAT NERVED MY SOUL TO RAISE SO FIXT A LOOK ON THE ETERNAL LIGHT. THAT I ACHIEVED THE OBJECT OF MY GAZE.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GLORIOUS VISION HERE MY POWERS O’ERCAME:— BUT NOW MY WILL AND WISH WERE SWAYED BY LOVE— (AS TURNS A WHEEL ON EVERY SIDE THE SAME) LOVE—AT WHOSE WORD THE SUN AND PLANETS MOVE. |
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THE NEW YORK NEWSBOY
BY JACOB A. RIIS
Author of “How the Other Half Lives,” etc.
WITH SKETCHES BY J. R. SHAVER
THE newsboys of New York were having their Christmas dinner, and I was bidden to the feast. I stood at the door and saw them file in, seven hundred strong, to take their places at the long tables. Last of all came the little shavers, brimful of mischief waiting to break out. The superintendent pulled my sleeve when he set eyes upon them.
“Watch out now,” he said; “they’ll be up to something.”