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Läsebok. N:o 76 — 77.
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He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter’s voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother’s voice,
Sinding in Paradise!
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He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each evening sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a nights repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming foro;e of life
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Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought!
Henry W. Longfellow.
(35. The Countryman’s God.
A great and learned atheist once met a plain countryman
going to church. He asked him, »Where are you going?» —
»To church, sir».
»What to do there?» — »To worship God».
»Pray, whether is your God a great, or a little God?» —
»He is both, sir».
»How can he be both?» — »He is so great, sir, that the
heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, and so little that
He can dwell in my poor heart».
The atheist declared that this simple answer of the
countryman had more effect upon his mind than all the
volumes the learned doctors had written upon the subject.
66. Pope and the Officer.
When Pope, the celebrated English poet, was one
evening at Burton’s coffee-house, and with Swift poring over a
manuscript of the Greek Aristophanes, they found a sentence
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