It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special g...ift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He slipped his hand and ran away! He hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!... With open jaws, a lion sprang, And hungrily began to eat The boy: beginning at his feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;... But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my body leaves me I'm lonesome for it.... but body goes away to I don't know where and it's lonesome to drift above the space it fills when it's here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.... The stars in the bright sky looked down where He lay-- The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »