The World Beyond Home

In a last glance, Jared saw the twisted shapes of the apple trees before the house; over the hill he saw the thin spiral of smoke from the Thaxter’s chimney. Those things were home, and his heart felt a pang of longing at leaving them; but he had learned early to steel himself against bodily……

Long-absent Travelers

The rapid night-fall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdered snow. Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street, where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed into the dark world without.……

Bannockburn (Scots, Wha Hae)

BY ROBERT BURNS T Bannockburn the English lay,– The Scots they were na far away, But waited for the break o’ day That glinted in the east. But soon the sun broke through the heath And lighted up that field of death, When Bruce, wi’ saul-inspiring breath, His heralds thus addressed:– “Scots, wha hae wi’……

Requiem

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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 long’d to be; Home is the sailor, home from the……