Hobart History and Genealogy, 1632 to 1912: A Resume Portraying the Meanderings of the Hobarts Emanating from Edmund Hobart ...

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E.L. Hobart, 1912 - 210 pages

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Page 8 - What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 62 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 58 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 6 - The sinner, who dared to remain unforgiven. The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed: So the multitude comes — even those we behold. To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 6 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run.
Page 60 - The long and dreary night comes on ; And at my door the Pale Horse stands, To carry me to unknown lands. His whinny shrill, his pawing hoof, Sound dreadful as a gathering storm ; And I must leave this sheltering roof, And joys of life so soft and warm. Tender and warm the joys of life, — Good friends, the faithful and the true ; My rosy children and my wife, So sweet to kiss, so fair to view.
Page 15 - I, with my wife and four children, came safely to New England, June 8, 1635. Forever praised be the God of Heaven, my God and my King.
Page 6 - The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne ; The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn ; The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
Page 16 - Hubbard's church, he was procured to preach, and came to Boston to that end. But the magistrates, hearing of it, sent to him to forbear. The reasons were, 1. for that his spirit had been discovered to be averse to our ecclesiastical and civil government, and he was a bold man, and would speak his mind, 2.
Page 4 - Far called, our navies melt away On dune and headland sinks the fire, Lo, all our pomp of yesterday, Is one with Ninevah and Tyre! Judge of the nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget, Lest we forget.

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