Identifier: oursundaybookofr00arch (find matches)
Title: Our Sunday book of reading and pictures
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Archer, Thomas, 1830-1893
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: London : Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s therefore a hugefolly to be much afflicted because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in bythe way. JEREMY TAYLOR. ©Jfte iJorx^aftea SJarmftoux^e, Against the wooded hills it stands.Ghost of a dead home, staring through Its broken lights on wasted landsWhere old-time harvests grew. Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn,The poor forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden cornAnd pale-green breadths of rye. Of healthful herb and flower bereft,The garden-plot no housewife keeps ; Through weeds and tangle only leftThe snake, its tenant, creeps. A lilac spray, once blossom-clad. Sways bare before the empty rooms ; Beside the roofless porch, a sadPathetic red rose blooms. His track, in mould and dust of drought.On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves ; And in the fireless chimneys mouth.His web the spider weaves. THE FORSAKEN FARMHOUSE. The leaning barn, about to fall, Resounds no more on husking eves ; No cattle low in yard or stall,No thresher beats his sheaves. 265
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So sad, so drear! It seem almost Some haunting Presence makes its sign; That down yon shadowy lane some ghostMight drive his spectral kine ! J. G. WHITTIER. 2 L ( 266 ) ©Ifte great ©oPPierL) jKcciilerit at JTarfPeup The main features of the calamity at Hartley Colliery may be soon indicated.Closely adjoining the shaft of the mine on the east side, was a substantialstone structure containing the machinery employed for keeping the pit clearof water. The pumping-engine was one of the largest to be met with in thecoal trade, with a power equal to 400 horses. The accident occurred about half-past ten in the morning. The greaterbody of the miners in the pit had gone in at one oclock in the morning, andwere just about being relieved to come to bank by the back shift, which wentin at nine oclock. In fact, two sets of men of the first shift had got to bank,and the third shift was riding or coming up the shaft in the cage, and hadgot hauled halfway up when the beam of the pumping-engine overh

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