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There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.
Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and whenthehill stoodstill hewasneverawhit abashed, but said,'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
'Yestreen I dreamed a dolefu'dream; I ken'd here wad be sorrow! I dreamed I pu'd the heather green, On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.' She gaed up yon high, high hill I wat she gaed wi'sorrow An' in the den spied nine dead men, On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.
L, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. 94
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Why hop ye so, ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth himto dwell: yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever.
Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill. Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrowed field Return sae dowf and weary O.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep,Truth stands, and he that will Reach her, about must, and about must go.
I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to seethat the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcherof warm piss.It doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.
I climbed a hill as light fell short, And rooks came home in scramble sort, And filled the trees and flapped and fought And sang themselves to sleep.
I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.
And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again?
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert,Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.
For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock; by fountain, shade, and rill.
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.
When Winter scourged the meadow and the hill And in the withered leafage worked his will, Then water shrank, and shuddered, and stood still, Then built himself a magic house of glass, Irised with memories of flowers and grass, Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass.
He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
I placed a jar inTennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.
If you can take $20,000 in one-hundred-dollar bills and walk up on a windy hill and tear themup and watchthem blowaway, and it doesn't bother you, thenyoushould go into the commodities market.
All thebusiness of war, and indeedall thebusiness of life, isto endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I call 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.
O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.
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