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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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unconscious little text,Preach a gospel more perplexed. Irom the Shepherds fold you came, Into our glad keeping given,A fresh soul, a snow-white lamb. From the boundless plains of Heaven :To our keeping, out of His, For of such My Kingdom is ! We, His sheep, have grown so oldAnd so weary with our roaming,Sometimes we forget the foldAnd the promise of His coming.And too fain our feet to strayIn strange pastures by the way: Or, God help us, puffed with pride. We dare set ourselves so surelyOn the righteous right-hand side,Whence we eye the goats securely-We, those nine-and-ninety, whoGreat temptation never knew. Only sometimes oer the faceOf a little child we linger.Half ashamed, half awed to traceTouch of Gods Almighty finger,Till we drop our world-worn eyesAt their innocent surprise. So—the sermons at an end, Sunday mornings duty finished ;Streaming out, hear friend greet friendRome may hide her head diminished. He do preach, our parson do ! —I have had my sermon too. G. B. SrrAKr
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THE ARGOSY SEPTEMBER, 1882. MRS. RAVEN^S TEMPTATION. BY THE AUTHOR OF DR. HARDYS MARRIAGE.CHAPTER XXXI. MRS. ravens wishes. THE next morning found no change in Mrs. Ravens determina-tion to return at once to Ravenscourt. Mrs. Connell hadexhausted reason in pleading with her to remain, and felt that shehad no fresh inducements to hold forth. It was easy to declare thatMrs. Raven was wrong in feeling that she, a sick and nervous invalid,was an undesirable guest, and to urge that duty and affection madeany such burdens light: but it was not easy to combat her argumentsthat such a sufferer was best at home—that even familiar furnitureand faces might have a soothing effect on wrung and shattered nerves. I shall not be better at Ravenscourt probably, said Mrs. Ravento them, but at least I shall feel nearer to Raven church vaults. She spoke bitterly: and not with any natural yearning for re-union with the departed. It was only the graves darkness andsilence that she longed for: and she che

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