A History of the Orvis Family in America

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Orvis Company, Incorporated, 1922 - 203 páginas
 

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Página 76 - Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Página 88 - Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, Blow softly here; Green sod above, Lie light, lie light; Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night.
Página 77 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore.
Página 20 - Yea, our pine trees that are the most plentiful of all wood doth allow us plenty of candles, which are very useful in a house, and they are such candles as the Indians commonly use, having no other, and they are nothing else but the wood of the pine tree cloven in two little slices something thin, which are so full of the moisture of turpentine and pitch that they burn as clear as a torch.
Página 196 - tis, That scarce deserves the name ! 2 Alas, the brittle clay That built our body first! And every month, and every day, 'Tis mouldering back to dust.
Página 76 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Página 14 - Plate, and to rny gr- Child Samuel Orvis my rope Hooks, and to my gr. Child Martha Scott a brass Candlestick and painted Box. I give to Hannah Hough, my gr. Child, a brass Box with pott hooks, when she comes of age. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill and Mary, the wife of Samuel Scott, and Mary Barnes and Experience Chapell all my Lining. I make Thomas Barnes my sole Executor, & Sergt. Thomas Porter & Sergt. John Hart to be Overseers.
Página 20 - ... in a house ; and they are such candles as the Indians commonly use, having no other; and they are nothing else but the wood of the pine tree cloven...
Página 196 - Sixteen years I lived a maid Two years I was a Wife Five hours I was a mother And so I lost my life. My babe lies by me as you see That shows no age from Death is free. "MiRE, daughter of Widow Semantha Cook, Died Feb'y 15, 1808, Aged 12 years. One day in health I did appear Next day a corpse, fit for the bier.
Página 77 - Another boy in lowly days, As he, to little things was born, But gathered lore in woodland ways, And from the glory of the morn. "As wider skies broke on his view, God greatened in his growing mind; Each year he dreamed his God anew, And left his older God behind. "He saw the boundless scheme dilate} In star and blossom, sky and clod; And, as the universe grew great, He dreamed for it a greater God.

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