id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9567 Whittier, John Greenleaf Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier .txt text/plain 79763 6664 94 And she placed their price in the old man's hand Like white-winged sea-birds on their way! Life's "great things," like the Syrian lord, Open thy door, thou wicked man, Pray let the old man rest." And the cold wind-driven rain-drops all day long Midst the cold dreary sea-watch, Home's hearth-light Nature's wild music,--sounds of wind-swept trees, To-day, thou poor bereaved one, the living ask thy Like that the gray-haired sea-king passed,(9) "God give thee a good day!" The old man raised "God give thee happy life." The old man smiled, Our times are in God's hands, and all our days The old man stroked the fair head that rested on FROM the hills of home forth looking, far beneath Like an old friend, all day has been with me. "Prayers of love like rain-drops fall, God's love and man's are here. "Know'st thou," he said, "thy gift of old?" ./cache/9567.txt ./txt/9567.txt