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# Russian Folk-Tales/Christ and the Geese

CHRIST AND THE GEESE
One day St. Peter and Christ were out walking together. St. Peter was deep in thought and suddenly said: "How fine it must be to be God! If for half a day I might be God, then let me be Peter all the rest of my days!"
The Lord smiled. "Your will shall be granted. Be God until nightfall."
They were approaching a village, and saw a peasant girl driving a flock of geese. She drove them to the meadow, left them there, and hurried back home.
"Are you going to leave the geese by themselves?" St. Peter asked.
"Well, what?—guard them to-day! It's a feast-day."
"But who will look after the geese?"
"God Almighty, maybe," she said, and ran away.
"Peter, you have heard her," said the Saviour. "I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, but then the geese might come to some harm. You are God until nightfall, and must stay and watch them."
Poor Peter! He was angry; but had to stay and guard the geese. He never again wished to be God.
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# Russian Folk-Tales/Christ and Folk-songs

CHRIST AND FOLK-SONGS
One day Christ and St. Peter were walking about the earth and came to a village. In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to listen, whilst St. Peter went on. He turned back and found Christ still at His post. St. Peter went on again, and looked back: Christ was still listening. St. Peter went on again and then glanced back a third time— and Christ was still listening. Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, stayed a while, and went on to another house where there also was singing. There St. Peter stayed, but Christ passed on. St. Peter hurried up and looked astounded.
"What's the matter?" asked Christ.
"I could not make out why you stopped to listen to folk-songs and passed by the house where hymns were being sung."
"Oh, my dear son," said Christ, "there was a good scent there in the one house where folk-songs were being sung; but there was no reverence about the house where they were chanting hymns."
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# Selected Czech Tales

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The World’s Classics
CCLXXXVIII SELECTED CZECH TALES
SELECTED CZECH TALES
TRANSLATED BY MARIE BUSCH AND OTTO PICK
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai
​This volume of ‘Selected Czech Tales’ was first published in ‘The World’s Classics’ in 1925.
Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
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# Seeberger v. Cahn

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United States Supreme Court
137 U.S. 95
Seeberger v. Cahn
Asst. Atty. Gen. Maury, for plaintiff in error.
Edwin B. Smith and Charles Curie, for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice GRAY, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# See Aaron, God's anointed priest

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The true AARON by John Newton
    See Aaron, God's anointed priest,
    Within the veil appear;
    In robes of mystic meaning dressed,
    Presenting Israel's prayer.
    The plate of gold which crowns his brows,
    His holiness describes;
    His breast displays, in shining rows,
    The names of all the tribes.
    With the atoning blood he stands,
    Before the mercy-seat;
    And clouds of incense from his hands,
    Arise with odor sweet.
    Urim and Thummim near his heart,
    In rich engravings worn;
    The sacred light of truth impart,
    To teach and to adorn.
    Through him the eye of faith descries,
    A greater Priest than he;
    Thus JESUS pleads above the skies,
    For you, my friends, and me.
    He bears the names of all his saints,
    Deep on his heart engraved;
    Attentive to the state and wants
    Of all his love has saved.
    In him a holiness complete,
    Light and perfections shine;
    And wisdom, grace, and glory meet;
    A Savior all divine.
    The blood, which as a Priest he bears
    For sinners, is his own
    The incense of his prayers and tears
    Perfume the holy throne.
    In him my weary soul has rest,
    Though I am weak and vile
    I read my name upon his breast,
    And see the Father smile.
# See the Gloomy Gathering Cloud

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The hiding place. February 10, 1779 by John Newton
    See the gloomy gathering cloud
    Hanging o’er a sinful land!
    Sure the Lord proclaims aloud,
    Times of trouble are at hand:
    Happy they, who love His Name!
    They shall always find Him near;
    Though the earth were wrapped in flame,
    They have no just cause for fear.
    Hark! His voice in accents mild,
    O, how comforting and sweet!
    Speaks to every humble child,
    Pointing out a sure retreat!
    Come, and in My chambers hide,
    To My saints of old well known;
    There you safely may abide,
    Till the storm be overblown.
    You have only to repose
    On My wisdom, love, and care;
    Where My wrath consumes my foes,
    Mercy shall My children spare:
    While they perish in the flood,
    You that bear My holy mark,
    Sprinkled with atoning blood,
    Shall be safe within the ark.
    Sinners, see the ark prepared!
    Haste to enter while there’s room;
    Though the Lord His arm has bared,
    Mercy still retards your doom:
    Seek Him while there yet is hope,
    Ere the day of grace be past;
    Lest in wrath He give you up,
    And this call should prove your last.
# See where the Thames, the purest stream

See where the Thames, the purest stream That wavers to the noon-day beam,  Divides the vale below: While like a vein of liquid ore His waves enrich the happy shore,  Still shining as they flow.
Nor yet, my Delia, to the main Runs the sweet tide without a stain,  Unsullied as it seems: Thy nymphs of many a sable flood Deform with streaks of oozy mud  The bosom of the Thames.
Some idle rivulets, that feed And suckle ev'ry noisome weed,  A sandy bottom boast: For ever bright, for ever clear, The trifling shallow rills appear  In their own channel lost.
Thus fares it with the human soul, Where copious floods of passion roll,  By genuine love supplied: Fair in itself the current shows, But ah! a thousand anxious woes  Pollute the noble tide.
These are emotions known to few; For where at most a vap'ry dew  Surrounds the tranquil heart, Then, as the triflers never prove The glad excess of real love,  They never prove the smart.
Oh then, my life, at last relent, Though cruel the reproach I sent,  My sorrow was unfeign'd: Your passion, had I lov'd you not, You might have scorn'd, renounc'd, forgot,  And I had ne'er complain'd.
While you indulge a groundless fear, Th' imaginary woes you bear  Are real woes to me: But thou art kind, and good thou art, Nor wilt, by wronging thine own heart,  Unjustly punish me.
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# See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

The blues standard "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" was written and first recorded by Texas bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1927. It has been covered many times over, including by Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Lightnin' Hopkins, Grateful Dead, and many others. It is also known as "One Kind Favor". This transcription is taken from the book Africa and the Blues, which cites this data: Recorded in Chicago, ca February 1928. Paramount 12608; reissued on Cocument DOCD-5019, "Blind Lemon Jefferson, Vol.3"
Well, it's one kind favor I ask of you. Well, it's one kind favor I ask of you. Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
It's a long old lane ain't got no end. It's a long lane that's got no end. It's a long lane ain't got no end. And it's a bad wind that never change.
Lord, it's two white horses in a line. Well, it's two white horses in a line. Well, it's two white horses in a line. Gonna take me to my burying ground.
My heart stopped beating, and my hands got cold. My heart stopped beating, and my hands got cold. Well, my heart stopped beating, Lord, my hands got cold. It wasn't long 'fore service by the cypress grove.
Have you ever heard a coffin sound? Have you ever heard a coffin sound? Have you ever heard a coffin sound? Then you know that the poor boy is in the ground.
Oh, dig my grave with a silver spade. Just dig my grave with a silver spade. Well, dig my grave with a silver spade. You may lead me down with a golden chain.
Have you ever heard a church bell tone? Have you ever heard a church bell tone? Have you ever heard a church bell tone? Then you know that the poor boy is dead and gone.

## Notes

* ↑ Africa and the Blues, Gerhard Kubik, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 10 Apr 2008

## Licensing

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# See v. City of Seattle

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Clark
United States Supreme Court
387 U.S. 541
See v. City of Seattle
Norman Dorsen, New York City, for appellant.
A. L. Newbould, Seattle, Wash., for appellee.
Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# See Saw, Margery Daw

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Popular English language nursery rhyme, folksong and playground singing game. The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13028.

## "Penny a day" variant

* "Penny a-Day" in Tommy Thumb's Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1815 edition).
* "See-saw, Margery Daw" (1) in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).
* "See-Saw, Margery Daw" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).

## "Sold her bed" variant

* "See-saw, Margery Daw" in The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village by Thomas Q. Couch (Notes and Queries, 1855).
* "Zee zaw, Margery Daw" in Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c by John Symonds Udal (The Folk-Lore Journal, 1889)
* "See saw, Marjory Daw" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
* "See-saw, Margery Daw" (2) in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).

## Truncated variant

* "See-Saw, sacaradown", edited by William Fayal Clarke, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose (October 1913)
# Scenes in my Native Land/Farewell to Niagara

FAREWELL TO NIAGARA.
My spirit grieves to say, Farewell to thee,
Oh beautiful and glorious!
 Thou dost robe
Thyself in mantle of the colored mist,
Most lightly tinged, and exquisite as thought, Decking thy forehead with a crown of gems
Woven by God's tight hand.
 Hadst thou but wrapped Thy brow in clouds, and swept the blinding mist In showers upon us, it had been less hard
To part from thee. But there thou art, sublime In noon-day splendor, gathering all thy rays
Unto their climax, green, and fleecy white,
And changeful tinture, for which words of man
Have neither sign nor sound, until to breathe
Farewell is agony. For we have roamed
Beside thee, at our will, and drawn thy voice
Into our secret soul, and felt how good
Thus to be here, until we half implored,
While long in wildering ecstasy we gazed,
To build us tabernacles, and behold
Always thy majesty.
 Fain would we dwell
Here at thy feet, and be thy worshipper,
And from the weariness and dust of earth
Steal evermore away. Yea, were it not
That many a care doth bind us here below,
And in each care, a duty, like a flower,
Thorn-hedged, perchance, yet fed with dews of heaven,
And in each duty, an enclosed joy, Which like a honey-searching bee doth sing,—
And were it not, that ever in our path
Spring up our planted seeds of love and grief,
Which we must watch, and bring their perfect fruit
Into our Master's garner, it were sweet
To linger here, and be thy worshipper,
Until death's footstep broke this dream of life.
And now, reader and friend, our hour of pleasant gossip is finished. We have said nothing of the pictured rocks, or the great western caverns, nor wandered together in spirit on the borders of our mighty lakes, or the shores of the "father of waters."
No. I have spoken only of such places as "keepers at home" may readily reach, and which probably you have yourself visited. Still it is as useful, and vastly more convenient, to admire objects near at hand than those far away; and on what the eye hath oft-times ​looked, we may still discover an unplucked flower, or an ungathered sunbeam, to cheer and to uplift the heart.
I have frequently used, in this little book, the language of others; sometimes, because I considered it better than my own; and sometimes, because I remembered the saying, that there is no greater compliment to an author than to quote from his works.
You will not, I hope, count it a deception, that while its title announces a description of scenes, its page so often presents those who have peopled them. I felt that a landscape was improved by figures, and that it was a solace made stronger by advancing years, thus to deepen the heart's memorial of the good and the lovely, who are no longer among the living.
So now, reader and friend, unknown, perchance, but still a friend, Farewell. If it is morning with you, may the day be blessed and happy; and if it is evening,
"a fair good night,
And pleasant dreams, and slumbers light."
Hartford, Conn. Dec. 4, 1844.
# Saltmarsh v. Tuthill (54 U.S. 229)

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United States Supreme Court
54 U.S. 229
Saltmarsh v. Tuthill
THIS case was brought up, by writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.
The only question was one of evidence, which is fully explained in the opinion of the court.
It was argued by Mr. J. A. Campbell and Mr. Seward, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Pryor, for the defendant in error.
Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Saltmarsh v. Tuthill (53 U.S. 387)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
53 U.S. 387
Saltmarsh v. Tuthill
The judgment in this case being in a common-law proceeding, it was not removed to this court by the appeal; and, consequently, the appeal-bond did not operate as a supersedeas.
The writ of error afterwards sued out, has brought the case regularly before this court. But as it was not sued out within ten days after the rendition of the judgment, the writ of errorbond does not stay the execution under the act of 1789.
Nor is there any equitable power in the Circuit Court to stay the execution, upon the ground that a mistake as to the manner or time of removing the case was committed. And it is immaterial in this respect whether it was the mistake of the party or the court. For this court has never deemed the tribunals of the United States authorized to dispense with the express provisions of the acts of Congress regulating appeals and writs of error, upon any equitable ground. No such power is given to them by law. It was so decided in this court in United States v. Curry and others, 6 How., 113; and Hogan and others v. Ross, 11 Id., 297. The Circuit Court therefore erred in setting aside the execution which the plaintiff had issued on the judgment.
But we do not think it necessary at this time to determine whether this court has the power to issue the mandamus, requiring the Circuit Court to issue the execution. Because we are satisfied from the facts before us, that the Circuit Court, without any coercive process, will conform to the opinion of this court, and issue execution when informed of this decision.
The question, therefore, as to the power of this court to issue the mandamus, is, for the present, reserved.

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# Saltonstall v. Birtwell

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* Saltonstall v. Birtwell (150 U.S. 417)
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# Saltonstall v. Birtwell (150 U.S. 417)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
150 U.S. 417
Saltonstall v. Birtwell
We are of opinion that the facts set forth in the special findings are not sufficient to support the judgment. The findings do not show what the collector charged the plaintiff, nor sufficiently describe the articles imported, nor does it appear from the record under what provisions of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, (22 Stat. 488,) the parties claimed respectively. The opinion might help the findings out, but cannot be resorted to for that purpose. Dickinson v. Bank, 16 Wall. 250.
We are unable, therefore, to direct judgment for either party. Insurance Co. v. Stark, 6 Cranch, 268, 273; Harden v. Fisher, 1 Wheat. 300, 303; Barnes v. Williams, 11 Wheat. 415; McArthur v. Porter, 1 Pet. 627; Ex parte French, 91 U.S. 423; Ryan v. Carter, 93 U.S. 78, 81; Hodges v. Easton, 106 U.S. 408, 411, 1 Sup. Ct. 307; Ft. Scott v. Hickman, 112 U.S. 150, 165, 5 Sup. Ct. 56; Spring Works Co. v. Spalding, 116 U.S. 541, 545, 546, 6 Sup. Ct. 498; Allen v. Bank, 120 U.S. 20, 30, 40, 7 Sup. Ct. 460; Raimond v. Terrebonne Parish, 132 U.S. 192, 10 Sup. Ct. 57; Lloyd v. McWilliams, 137 U.S. 576, 11 Sup. Ct. 173.
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.

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# Saltmarsh v. Tuthill

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# Saltmarsh v. Tuthill (54 U.S. 229)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
54 U.S. 229
Saltmarsh v. Tuthill
Hill drew a thirty days' bill, dated at Mobile, on William Bower & Co., for four thousand dollars, payable to Coleman. It was indorsed by Coleman to Saltmarsh, and by him to James W. Tuthill, who sued Saltmarsh. The parties went to trial on the general issue, and the defence relied on was usury. By the laws of Alabama, a party to any security for the payment of money, who takes more than after the rate of eight per cent. per annum for the money advanced, is prohibited from recovering any interest, and can have judgment only for the original sum loaned. And this abatement, was the matter in controversy. To prove the usury, Hill, the drawer, and William Bower, one of the drawees, were introduced on behalf of the defendant; and objected to by the plaintiff as incompetent, on the ground that a party to negotiable paper who, by the sanction of his name, gave it credit and currency, could not afterwards, upon his own testimony, invalidate the instrument, by showing that the consideration on which it was executed was illegal. The witnesses were rejected.
Both Hill and Bower were offered to prove facts which, when taken in connection with additional facts, that might be proved by others, would invalidate the instrument in part, by abating the interest. The proof was offered, and only material to establish the defence of usury, this being the sole defence. It must be admitted, that if the party to the bill had been introduced to establish the whole defence, then he was incompetent; and to hold, that he could prove a defence in part, without which piece of evidence no successful defence could be made, would be a mere evasion of the rule, which excludes such witness from giving evidence to impeach the consideration.
No other question is presented to us, nor does any other exist in the record, worthy of notice. It is therefore ordered, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be affirmed.
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record, from the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said District Court in this cause be, and the same is hereby affirmed with costs and damages, at the rate of six per centum per annum.

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# Select collection No. XXX

Select Collection.
No. XXX.
The Braes o' Lomond.
Kind Robin Loes me.
Neilson's Last Victory.
Dainty Davie.
Sweet Polly of Plymouth.
EDINBURGH: Printed for the Booksellers:
* The Braes o' Lomond
* Kind Robin Loes me
* Neilson's Last Victory
* Dainty Davie
* Sweet Polly of Plymouth
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# Select collection No. XXX/Dainty Davie

Dainty Davie.
Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers, To deck her gay green spreading bowers; And now comes in my happy hours, To wander wi’ my Davie.
Meet me on the warlock knowe, Dainty Davie, dainty Davie, There I'll spend the day wi’ you, My ain dear dainty Davie.
The crystal waters round us fa’, The merry birds are lovers a’, The scented breezes round us blaw, A wandering wi' my Davie. Meet me, &c.
When purple morning starts the hare, To steal upon her early fare, Then thro' the dews I will repair, To meet thy faithu' Davie. Meet me, &c.
When day expiring in the west, The curtain draws o’ nature's rest, I flee to his arms I lo'e best, And that's my ain dear Davie. Meet me, &c.