ers, and fan with their pinions of purple.
Closed was the Teacher's task, and with heaven in their hearts and
their faces,
Up rose the children all, and each bowed him, weeping full sorely,
Downward to kiss that reverend hand, but all of them pressed he
Moved to his bosom, and laid, with a prayer, his hands full of
blessings,
Now on the holy breast, and now on the innocent tresses.
A: The Feast of the Tabernacles; in Swedish _Loefkyddohoegtiden_, the
Leaf-huts'-high-tide.
B: The peasant-painter of Sweden. He is known chiefly by his
altar-pieces in the village churches.
C: A distinguished pulpit-orator and poet. He is particularly
remarkable for the beauty and sublimity of his psalms.
Transcriber's Notes
Inconsistent hyphenation is retained from original.
Page 14
Moulded it into into a pipe-head,
One 'into' removed.
Page 60, 240
The pigeon is referred to as Omeme or Omemee. No change.
Page 100, 185
The war-club is referred to as Pugamaugun and Puggawaugun. No change.
Page 187, line 124
Like the eyes of wolves glared at him
Punctuation missing. Added period.
Page 198, line 105
Black his moccassins and leggins,
'leggins' is a possible typo for 'leggings'.
Unchanged.
Note: The following poems were added by the publisher, but were not
shown in the Table of Contents. The page numbering makes these poems
appear to be out of place.
The Skeleton in the Armor
Page 149
Inconsistent indentation retained.
Page 150
To hear my story,
Comma retained from scan.
Page 151
Death! was the helmsmans hail
Semicolon added--not visible in scan of original.
Page 153, footnote
'orthographpy' changed to 'orthography'.
Page 160
Then mutters at last like the thunders fall,
Added apostrophe: thunders becomes thunder's.
Page 160
Kling! klang!--with a harder blow than all
'all' missing from scan. Added.
The Elected Knight
Page 161
In athoms shall fall this earthly ball
'athoms' is likely a typo for 'atoms'. Unchanged.
Page 163
Thou shallt not yield the yet;
'shallt' unchanged from original.
The Children of the Lord's Supper
Page 166
While all around at his feet, and eternity slumbered in quite.
Changed to:
While all around at his feet, an eternity slumbered in quiet.
Page 169
Gleams in the human soul, even now, fr
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