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# Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/Lines composed in a concert room

LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM.
Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! yet I detest These scented Rooms, where, to a gaudy throng, Heaves the proud Harlot her distended breast, In intricacies of laborious song.
These feel not Music's genuine power, nor deign To melt at Nature's passion-warbled plaint; But when the long-breath'd singer's uptrill'd strain Bursts in a squall—they gape for wonderment.
Hark! the deep buzz of Vanity and Hate! Scornful, yet envious, with self-torturing sneer My lady eyes some maid of humbler state, While the pert Captain, or the primmer Priest, Prattles accordant scandal in her ear.
O give me, from this heartless scene releas'd, To hear our old musician, blind and grey, (Whom stretching from my nurse's arms I kist,) His Scottish tunes and warlike marches play,
By moonshine, on the balmy summer-night, The while I dance amid the tedded hay With merry maids, whose ringlets toss in light.
Or lies the purple evening on the bay Of the calm glossy lake, O let me hide Unheard, unseen, behind the alder-trees Around whose roots the fisher's boat is tied, On whose trim seat doth Edmund stretch at ease, And while the lazy boat sways to and fro, Breathes in his flute sad airs, so wild and slow, That his own cheek is wet with quiet tears.
But O, dear Anne! when midnight wind careers, And the gust pelting on the out-house shed Makes the cock shrilly in the rain-storm crow, To hear thee sing some ballad full of woe, Ballad of ship-wreck'd sailor floating dead, Whom his own true-love buried in the sands! Thee, gentle woman, for thy voice remeasures Whatever tones and melancholy pleasures The Things of Nature utter; birds or trees Or moan of ocean-gale in weedy caves, Or where the stiff grass mid the heath-plant waves, Murmur and music thin of sudden breeze.
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Children whom Jesus blest

VI.
THE CHILDREN WHOM JESUS BLEST.
Happy were they, the mothers, in whose sight  Ye grew, fair children! hallowed from that hour  By your Lord's blessing! surely thence a shower Of heavenly beauty, a transmitted light Hung on your brows and eyelids, meekly bright,  Through all the after years, which saw ye move Lowly, yet still majestic, in the might,  The conscious glory of the Saviour's love! And honoured be all childhood, for the sake  Of that high love! Let reverential care Watch to behold the immortal spirit wake,  And shield its first bloom from unholy air; Owning, in each young suppliant glance, the sign Of claims upon a heritage divine.
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Lilies of the Field

VIII.
THE LILIES OF THE FIELD.
"Consider the lilies of the field."
Flowers! when the Saviour's calm benignant eye  Fell on your gentle beauty—when from you  That heavenly lesson for all hearts he drew, Eternal, universal, as the sky— Then, in the bosom of your purity,  A voice He set, as in a temple-shrine, That life's quick travellers ne'er might pass you by  Unwarn'd of that sweet oracle divine. And though too oft its low, celestial sound, By the harsh notes of work-day Care is drown'd, And the loud steps of vain unlistening Haste,  Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power  Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hush’d hour, Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Annunciation

VII.
THE ANNUNCIATION.
Lowliest of women, and most glorified!  In thy still beauty sitting calm and lone, A brightness round thee grew—and by thy side  Kindling the air, a form ethereal shone,  Solemn, yet breathing gladness.—From her throne A queen had risen with more imperial eye, A stately prophetess of victory  From her proud lyre had struck a tempest's tone, For such high tidings as to thee were brought,  Chosen of Heaven! that hour:—but thou, O thou! E'en as a flower with gracious rains o'erfraught,  Thy virgin head beneath its crown didst bow, And take to thy meek breast th' all holy word, And own thyself the handmaid of the Lord.
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Child Reading the Bible

THE CHILD READING THE BIBLE.
"A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, to waylay. **** A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death." Wordsworth.
I saw him at his sport erewhile,  The bright exulting boy, Like summer's lightning came the smile  Of his young spirit's joy; A flash that wheresoe'er it broke, To life undreamt-of beauty woke.
His fair locks wav'd in sunny play,  By a clear fountain's side, Where jewel-colour'd pebbles lay  Beneath the shallow tide; And pearly spray at times would meet The glancing of his fairy feet.
He twin'd him wreaths of all spring-flowers,  Which drank that streamlet's dew; He flung them o'er the wave in showers,  Till, gazing, scarce I knew Which seem'd more pure, or bright, or wild, The singing fount or laughing child.
To look on all that joy and bloom  Made earth one festal scene, Where the dull shadow of the tomb  Seem'd as it ne'er had been. How could one image of decay Steal o'er the dawn of such clear day?
I saw once more that aspect bright—  The boy's meek head was bow'd In silence o'er the Book of Light,  And like a golden cloud, The still cloud of a pictur'd sky— His locks droop'd round it lovingly.
And if my heart had deem'd him fair,  When in the fountain glade, A creature of the sky and air,  Almost on wings he play'd; Oh! how much holier beauty now Lit the young human being's brow!
The being born to toil, to die,  To break forth from the tomb, Unto far nobler destiny  Than waits the sky-lark's plume! I saw him, in that thoughtful hour, Win the first knowledge of his dower.
The soul, the awakening soul I saw,  My watching eye could trace The shadows of its new-born awe,  Sweeping o'er that fair face: As o'er a flower might pass the shade By some dread angel's pinion made!
The soul, the mother of deep fears,  Of high hopes infinite, Of glorious dreams, mysterious tears,  Of sleepless inner sight; Lovely, but solemn, it arose, Unfolding what no more might close.
The red-leaved tablets, undefiled,  As yet, by evil thought— Oh! little dream'd the brooding child,  Of what within me wrought,
While his young heart first burn'd and stirr'd, And quiver'd to the eternal word.
And reverently my spirit caught  The reverence of his gaze; A sight with dew of blessing fraught  To hallow after-days; To make the proud heart meekly wise, By the sweet faith in those calm eyes.
It seem'd as if a temple rose  Before me brightly there, And in the depths of its repose  My soul o'erflowed with prayer, Feeling a solemn presence nigh— The power of infant sanctity!
O Father! mould my heart once more,  By thy prevailing breath!
Teach me, oh! teach me to adore  E'en with that pure one's faith; A faith, all made of love and light, Child-like, and, therefore, full of might!
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Darkness of the Crucifixion

XII.
THE DARKNESS OF THE CRUCIFIXION.
On Judah's hills a weight of darkness hung, Felt shudderingly at noon:—the land had driven A Guest divine back to the gates of Heaven, A life, whence all pure founts of healing sprung, All grace, all truth:—find, when to anguish wrung, From the sharp cross th' enlightening spirit fled, O'er the forsaken earth a pall of dread By the great shadow of that death was flung. O Saviour! O Atoner! thou that fain Wouldst make thy temple in each human breast, Leave not such darkness in my soul to reign, Ne'er may thy presence from its depths depart, Chas'd thence by guilt! Oh! turn not thou away, The bright and morning star, my guide to perfect day!
# Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems/The Birds of the Air

IX.
THE BIRDS OF THE AIR.
"And behold the birds of the air."
Ye too, the free and fearless Birds of air,  Were charg'd that hour, on missionary wing, The same bright lesson o'er the seas to bear,  Heaven-guided wanderers with the winds of spring! Sing on, before the storm and after, sing!  And call us to your echoing woods away From worldly cares; and bid our spirits bring  Faith to imbibe deep wisdom from your lay. So may those blessed vernal strains renew Childhood, a childhood yet more pure and true  E'en than the first, within th' awaken'd mind; While sweetly, joyously, they tell of life, That knows no doubts, no questionings, no strife,  But hangs upon its God, unconsciously resigned.
# Small v. Rakestraw

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United States Supreme Court
196 U.S. 403
Small v. Rakestraw
Argued: January 18, 1905. --- Decided: January 30, 1905
Messrs.
George A. King, William B. King, and William E. Harvey for plaintiff in error.
No counsel for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Smallwood v. Gallardo

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United States Supreme Court
275 U.S. 56
Smallwood v. Gallardo
PORTO RICO TAX APPEALS.
Argued Oct. 5, 1927.
Decided Oct. 24, 1927.
Mr. Francis G. Caffey, of New York City, for petitioners Smallwood, Ordonez, Insular Motor Corporation and others.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 57-58 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Carroll G. Walter, of New York City, for petitioners Valdes, Finlay, Waymouth & Lee, Inc., Portilla and others.
[Argument of Counsel from page 59 intentionally omitted]
Mr. William Cattron Rigby, of Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Small v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
134 U.S. 514
Small v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company
This appeal must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Small filed his bill in the district court of the fourth judicial district of the state of Minnesota, whence the cause was subsequently removed into h e circuit court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, and, upon hearing, resulted on the 24th day of June, 1884, in a decree dismissing the complainant's bill, and rendering judgment in favor of the defendant for its costs to be taxed. On the 25th day of June, 1884, the complainant prayed an appeal to this court, which was granted. On the 21st day of May, 1886, complainant filed an appeal-bond, and a citation was issued, returnable at the October term, 1886, dated April 30, 1886. The record herein was filed October 19, 1886. The only appeal which from the record before us appears to have been prayed and allowed was that of the 25th day of June, 1884. But, as we have said many times before, inasmuch as the record was not filed at the term succeeding the allowance of the appeal, that appeal ceased to have any operation or effect, and the case stood as if it had never been allowed. There was no allowance of an appeal after that, and when the record was filed on the 19th day of October, 1886, this was not done in pursuance of an appeal still in force, nor could an appeal then have been allowed, as two years had expired from the date of the final decree. This appeal was not 'taken' as provided, and we are therefore compelled to dismiss it. Credit Co. v. Railway Co., 128 U.S. 258, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 107; Richardson v. Green, 130 U.S. 104, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 443; Evans v. Bank, ante, 493. Appeal dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

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# Small variations in breeding pools make for big differences in Yosemite toad use

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Small variations in breeding pools make for big differences in Yosemite toad use
Paul Meznarich Pacific Southwest Research Station June 30, 2017
The Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus) is a rare species found exclusively in California’s Sierra Nevada. While its range encompasses hundreds of miles, spanning five national forests and two national parks, the livelihood and future survival of this federally threatened species may come down to mere centimeters.
According to research by the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station and its collaborators, for pools within alpine meadows to be suitable habitat for laying eggs and sustaining tadpoles, little things mean a lot.
“Our research looked at pools across the toad’s range, in a variety of weather and precipitation conditions across a number of years,” said Christina Liang, a research ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station and lead author of the study. “But no matter the year-to-year variations, we found relatively consistent and definitive characteristics were shared by the majority of pools supporting Yosemite toad offspring compared to those unoccupied.”
In Liang and her colleagues’ study, “Fine-Scale Habitat Characteristics Related to Occupancy of the Yosemite Toad,” they found the following differences, on average, between occupied and unoccupied pools:
* Depth of bottom debris: 1.62 cm (occupied) versus 1.69 cm (unoccupied)
* Pool vegetation height: 13.20 cm versus 14.16 cm
* Water depth: 4.35 cm versus 3.65 cm
* Water temperature: 24.82 degrees C (76.68 F) versus 21.75 degrees C (71.15 F)
* Percentage of surface water along the pool’s width: 60.57 percent versus 40.07 percent
This new understanding of microsite suitability can provide land managers with valuable insights on how they can foster the species’ future survival.
“Understanding the complexity of toad breeding habitat is critical to the conservation of the species,” said Stephanie Barnes, an aquatic biologist on the Sierra National Forest. As land managers focus on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies, creating suitable breeding habitat can be built into restoration plans.
“We want to create the right habitat for these toads wherever possible,” she said.
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# Small v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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United States Supreme Court
134 U.S. 514
Small v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company
John G. Wooley, for appellant.
W. P. Clough, A. H. Garland, and Heber J. May, for appellee.
FULLER, C. J.

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# Royal Naval Biography/White, James Kearney

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JAMES KEARNEY WHITE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1818.]
Obtained post-rank, Dec. 7, 1818; and died at Bermuda, in command of the Tyne 26, on the 2nd March, 1828.
# Royal Naval Biography/White, Mark

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MARK WHITE, Esq. [Commander.]
Passed his examination in Oct. 1809; obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 13th Aug. 1810; served during the remainder of the war in the Berwick 74. latterly commanded by Captain Edward Brace, on the Mediterranean station; and was promoted to his present rank Oct. 10th, 1816.
# Royal Naval Biography/White, Thomas

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THOMAS WHITE, (a) Esq. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
Post commission dated Aug. 7, 1810.
Agents.– Messrs. Stillwell.
# Royal Naval Biography/Whorwood, William Henry

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WILLIAM HENRY WHORWOOD, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1798; and promoted to the command of the Pylades sloop, on the Mediterranean station, Dec. 27th, 1808. He is one of those officers who received gold medals from the Turkish government, at the close of the Egyptian campaign.
# Royal Naval Biography/Whyte, Edward

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EDWARD WHYTE, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 2d May, 1804, and commander Dec. 6th, 1813.
# Royal Naval Biography/White, Martin

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MARTIN WHITE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1818.]
Son of Mr. Martin White, formerly a wine-merchant of Portsea.
This officer was made lieutenant in 1800; commander, Sept. 25, 1806; and post-captain, Dec. 7, 1818. He has commanded the Shamrock, surveying vessel, employed on the coasts of England, Jersey, Guernsey, &c. ever since the commencement of 1817.
Agents.– Messrs. Barnett and King.
# Royal Naval Biography/White, Thomas (b)

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THOMAS WHITE, Esq (b). [Post-Captain of 1810.]
Was made a Commander in the summer of 1798, and posted whilst serving in the Avenger sloop, Oct. 21, 1810.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
# Royal Naval Biography/Wickey, John

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JOHN WICKEY, Esq Admiral of the White.
This officer was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Aug. 22, 1781; Rear-Admiral, Jan. 1, 1801; Vice-Admiral, Nov. 9, 1805; and Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813. Towards the close of the American war, he commanded the Rotterdam, of 50 guns; and during a part of the war with the French republic, the Cambridge an 80-gun ship, bearing the flag of the Port Admiral at Plymouth.
# Royal Naval Biography/White, George

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GEORGE WHITE, Esq [Post-Captain of 1799.]
Post commission dated Aug. 30, 1799.
Agent.– ___
# Skinner v. Oklahoma

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Skinner v. State of Oklahoma, Ex. Rel. Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (w:1942), was the ruling which held that compulsory sterilization could not be sentenced as a punishment for a crime. Warning: template has been deprecated.

## Concurring Opinions

    Stone
    Jackson
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
316 U.S. 535
SKINNER v. OKLAHOMA EX REL. WILLIAMSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL
1. A statute of Oklahoma provides for the sterilization, by vasectomy or salpingectomy, of "habitual criminals" — an habitual criminal being defined therein as any person who, having been convicted two or more times, in Oklahoma or in any other State, of "felonies involving moral turpitude," is thereafter convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in Oklahoma for such a crime. Expressly excepted from the terms of the statute are certain offenses, including embezzlement. As applied to one who was convicted once of stealing chickens and twice of robbery, held that the statute violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 316 U. S. 537.
2. The State Supreme Court having sustained the Act, as applied to the petitioner here, without reference to a severability clause, the question whether that clause would be so applied as to remove the particular constitutional objection is one which may appropriately be left for adjudication by the state court. P. 316 U. S. 542.
# Skipper Ireson's Ride

* “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 1, no. 2 (Dec. 1857)
* “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” in The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1895)
# Skiriotes v. Florida

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United States Supreme Court
313 U.S. 69
Skiriotes v. Florida
Argued: March 14, 1941. --- Decided: April 28, 1941
See 313 U.S. 599, 61 S.Ct. 1093, 85 L.Ed. --.
Mr. W. B. Dickenson, Jr., of Tampa, Fla., for appellant.
Mr. Nathan Cockrell, of Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Skinner v. Louisiana

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United States Supreme Court
393 U.S. 473
Skinner v. Louisiana
George M. Leppert, New Orleans, La., for petitioners.
Mrs. Louise Korns, New Orleans, La., for respondent.
On writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
PER CURIAM.

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# Skinner v. Oklahoma/Concurrence Jackson

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I join the CHIEF JUSTICE in holding that the hearings provided are too limited in the context of the present Act to afford due process of law. I also agree with the opinion of MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS that the scheme of classification set forth in the Act denies equal protection of the law. I disagree with the opinion of each in so far as it rejects or minimizes the grounds taken by the other.
Perhaps to employ a broad and loose scheme of classification would be permissible if accompanied by the individual hearings indicated by the CHIEF JUSTICE. On the other hand, narrow classification with reference to the end to be accomplished by the Act might justify limiting individual hearings to the issue whether the individual belonged to a class so defined. Since this Act does not present these questions, I reserve judgment on them.
I also think the present plan to sterilize the individual in pursuit of a eugenic plan to eliminate from the race characteristics that are only vaguely identified and which in our present state of knowledge are uncertain as to transmissibility presents other constitutional questions of gravity. This Court has sustained such an experiment with respect to an imbecile, a person with definite and observable characteristics, where the condition had persisted through three generations and afforded grounds for the belief that it was transmissible and would continue to manifest itself in generations to come. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200.
There are limits to the extent to which a legislatively represented majority may conduct biological experiments at the expense of the dignity and personality and natural powers of a minority — even those who have been guilty of what the majority define as crimes. But this Act falls down before reaching this problem, which I mention only to avoid the implication that such a question may not exist because not discussed. On it I would also reserve judgment.
# Songs of Russia/The Pines

THE PINES
v. v. bashkin
The dark pines by my window murmur low, The wind sways sleepily their summits hoar; I hear them whispering in monotone Still the same tale—the same forevermore.
“In a sad part of earth we sprang to life; In a sad land no happiness can dwell. We by the dim gray mists are wearied out; Our lives are drearier than a prison cell.
“We have forgotten how to wait and hope. Here we are cold, and darksome is the sky. Here we can only suffer and endure In patience; here it would be good to die.”
The sad pines by my window murmur low, The wind sways sleepily their summits hoar; I hear them whispering in monotone Still the same tale—the same forevermore.