id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9560 Whittier, John Greenleaf The Vaudois Teacher, and other poems Part 1 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier .txt text/plain 12898 1236 93 As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine. The lady smiled on the worn old man through the And she placed their price in the old man's hand Whose light shall be as a spell to thee and a Where her eye shone clear, and her dark locks "Bring forth thy pearl of exceeding worth, thou And she hath left the gray old halls, where an evil Giving thee to thy God; Their tearful watch around thy place of sleeping. As thy low prayers were given; The dark and low-walled dwellings stood, Dark cottage-wall and rock and wood, Dark, shadow-like, on either hand Like white-winged sea-birds on their way! Life's "great things," like the Syrian lord, "Now, Goodman Macy, ope thy door,-Open thy door, thou wicked man, Go light the dark, cold hearth-stones,--go turn Who from the hands of evil men hath set his handmaid free; ./cache/9560.txt ./txt/9560.txt