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Title: Across the Sea and Other Poems.
Author: Thomas S. Chard
Release Date: June 13, 2006 [EBook #18574]
Language: English
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ACROSS THE SEA
And Other Poems.
By
Thomas S. Chard.
Now just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them,
and behold the City shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold,
and in them walked many men, with crowns on their heads,
palms in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises withal.
- * * And after that they shut up the gates; which, when I had seen, I wished myself among them.
--Pilgrim's Progress.
Chicago:
Jansen, McClurg & Company.
1875.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFACE.
The poem whose name gives title to this little volume, was published in outline in the winter of 1869, and now appears for the first time as completed. _The sea,_ as a picture of life,