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# Of the Imitation of Christ/Book III/Chapter XV

CHAPTER XV.
IN EVERYTHING WHICH WE DESIRE HOW WE OUGHT TO STAND, AND WHAT WE OUGHT TO SAY.
Y son, say thou thus in everything; Lord, if this be pleasing unto Thee, so let it be.
"Lord, if it be to Thy honour, in Thy Name let this be done.
"Lord, if Thou see it to be expedient and profitable for me, then grant unto me that I may use this to Thine honour.
"But if Thou know it will be hurtful unto me, and no profit to the health of my soul, take away the desire from me."
For every desire proceedeth not from the Holy Spirit, even though it seem unto a man right and good.
It is difficult to judge truly whether a good spirit or the contrary be urging thee to desire this or that; or whether by thine own spirit thou be moved thereunto.
Many have been deceived in the end, who at the first seemed to be led by a good spirit.
2. Therefore whatever seemeth to be desirable, must always be desired and prayed for in the fear of God and with humility of heart; and chiefly thou must commit the whole matter to Me with special resignation of thyself, and thou must say, ​"Lord, Thou knowest what is best for us, let this or that be done, as Thou pleasest.
"Give what Thou wilt, and how much Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt.
"Deal with me as Thou thinkest good, and as best pleaseth Thee, and is most for Thy honour.
"Set me where Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt.
"I am in Thy hand: turn me round, and turn me back again, as Thou shalt please.
"Behold, I am Thy servant, prepared for all things: for I desire not to live unto myself, but unto Thee, and O that I could do it worthily and perfectly!"
A Prayer that the will of God may be fulfilled.
3. O most merciful Jesus, grant to me Thy grace, that it may be with me, and work with me, and continue with me even to the end.
Grant that I may always desire and will that which is to Thee most acceptable, and most dear.
Let Thy will be mine, and let my will ever follow Thine, and agree perfectly with it.
Let my will be all one with Thy will, and let me not be able to will, or forego anything, but what Thou willest or dost not will.
4. Grant that I may die to all things that are in the world, and for Thy sake love to be contemned, and not known in this generation.
Grant to me above all things to desire to rest in Thee, and in Thee to have my heart at peace.
​Thou art the true peace of the heart: Thou its only rest; out of Thee all things are full of trouble. In this peace, that is, in Thee, the one chiefest eternal Good, I will lay me down and sleep.Amen.
# Of the Imitation of Christ/Book III/Chapter XVIII

CHAPTER XVIII.
THAT TEMPORAL SUFFERINGS MUST BE BORNE PATIENTLY, AFTER THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.
Y son, I descended from heaven for thy salvation; I took upon Me thy sorrows, not necessity but love drawing Me thereto; that thou thyself mightest learn patience, and bear sufferings without repining.
For from the hour of My birth, even until My death on the cross, I was not without suffering and grief.
I suffered great want of things temporal; I often heard many complaints against Me; I endured patiently disgraces and revilings; in return for benefits I received ingratitude; for miracles, blasphemies; for heavenly doctrine, reproofs.
2. O Lord, for that Thou wert patient in Thy ​lifetime, herein especially fulfilling the commandment of Thy Father; it is reason that I, a most miserable sinner, should bear myself patiently according to Thy will, and for my soul's welfare endure the burden of this corruptible life as long as Thou shalt choose.
For although this present life be burdensome, yet notwithstanding it is now by Thy grace made very gainful; and, by Thine example and the footsteps of Thy saints, more bright and endurable to the weak.
It is much more full of consolation than it was formerly under the old law, when the gate of heaven remained shut; and the way also to heaven seemed darker when so few cared to seek after the kingdom of heaven.
Moreover also, they who then were just and such as should be saved, could not enter into the heavenly kingdom, before the accomplishment of Thy Passion, and the satisfaction of Thy holy death.
3. O how great thanks am I bound to render unto Thee, that Thou hast vouchsafed to shew unto me and to all the faithful the good and the right way to Thine eternal kingdom.
For Thy life is our way, and by the path of holy patience we walk toward Thee, Who art our Crown.
If Thou hadst not gone before us and taught us, who would have cared to follow?
Alas, how many would remain behind and afar off, if they considered not Thine example!
Behold we are even yet lukewarm, though we have heard of so many of Thy miracles and doctrines. What would become of us, if we had not so great light whereby to follow Thee!
# Of the Imitation of Christ/Book III/Chapter XXIV

CHAPTER XXIV.
OF AVOIDING CURIOUS ENQUIRY INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER MEN.
E not curious, my son, nor trouble thyself with idle cares.
What is this or that to thee? follow thou Me.
For what is it to thee, whether that man be such or such, or whether this man do or speak this or that?
Thou shalt not need to answer for others, but shalt give account for thyself; why therefore dost thou entangle thyself?
Behold, I know every one, and do see all things that are done under the sun; also I understand how it is with every one, what he thinks, what he wishes, and what his intentions are.
Unto Me therefore all things are to be committed: but do thou keep thyself in peace, and leave the unquiet to be as unquiet as they will.
​Whatsoever they shall have done or said, shall come upon themselves, for Me they cannot deceive.
2. Be not careful for the shadow of a great name, or for the familiar friendship of many, or for the particular affection of men.
For these things both distract the heart and greatly darken it.
Willingly would I speak My word, and reveal My secrets unto thee, if thou wouldst diligently observe My coming, and open unto Me the door of thine heart.
Be thou circumspect, and watchful in prayer, and in all things humble thyself.
# Of the Imitation of Christ/Book III/Chapter XVI

CHAPTER XVI.
THAT TRUE COMFORT IS TO BE SOUGHT IN GOD ALONE.
HATSOEVER I can desire or imagine for my comfort, I look for it not here but hereafter.
For if I could possess all the comforts of the world, and might enjoy all the delights thereof, it is certain that they could not long endure.
Wherefore, O my soul, thou canst not be fully comforted, nor have perfect refreshment, except in God, the comforter of the poor, and the helper of the humble.
Wait a little while, O my soul, wait for the divine promise, and thou shalt have abundance of all good things in heaven.
If thou inordinately desire the things that are present, thou shalt lose those which are heavenly and eternal.
Use temporal things, and desire eternal.
Thou canst not be satisfied by temporal goods, because thou art not created to enjoy them.
2. Although thou shouldst possess all created
​good, yet couldst thou not be happy thereby nor blessed; but in God, Who created all things, consisteth thy whole blessedness and felicity.
Not such as is seen and commended by the foolish lovers of the world, but such as the good and faithful servants of Christ wait for, and of which the spiritual and pure in heart, whose conversation is in heaven, sometimes have a foretaste.
Vain and brief is all human consolation.
Blessed and true is the consolation which is received inwardly from the truth.
A devout man beareth everywhere about with him his own comforter Jesus, and saith unto him, "Be Thou present with me, O Lord Jesu, in every time and place.
"Let this be my comfort, to be willing to lack all human comfort.
"And if Thy comfort be wanting, let Thy will and just proving of me be unto me as the greatest comfort; for Thou wilt not always be angry, neither wilt Thou chide for ever."
# Ode on J. Žižka von Trotznow

English-language translations of Ode on J. Žižka von Trotznow include:
# Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

* "Ode On the Death of the Duke of Wellington"", in Maud, and other poems (1855)
* "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington", in The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series (1904), edited by Adam Luke Gowans
# Ode on Imagination

Imagination's eyes Outreach and distance far The vision of the greatest star That measures instantaneously— Enisled therein as in a sea— Its cincture of the system-laden skies. Abysses closed about with night A tribute yield To her retardless sight; And Matter's walls reveal the candent ores Rock-held in furnaces of planet-cores. She penetrates the sun's transplendent shield, And through that inner vastness, sphered and dire, Pierces his dreadful heart, whose gurge of fire Heaves outward, riven by Titanic throes, And fills his frame with tide and cataract Of thunder-pulsing, incandescent streams. Her eyes exact From the Moon-Sphinx that wanes and grows In wastes celestial, alien dreams Brought down on wings of spectral beams. Adown the clefts of under-space, She rides, her steed a falling star, To seek, where void and vagueness are, Some mark or certainty of place. Upon their heavenly precipice, The gathered suns shrink back aghast From that interminate abyss, And threat of sightless anarchs vast.
She stands endued With supermundane crown, and vestitures Of emperies that include All underworlds and overworlds of dream— Domains with shadow bound, Cimmerian and profound, And heights of some Himalaya supreme Where moon-transcending light endures. She roams in grey, fantasmal lands, where grow In scarce-discernèd fields and closes blind, Faint blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons; Or wanders all bemused and slow In woods where only nameless echoes go And wraiths of ancient wind: In twilight there she shuns The strident day, while ecstasy and grief Speak only in vague whispers like the leaf.
Upon some supersensual eminence She hears the fragments of a thunder loud, Where lightnings of ulterior Truth intense Flame through the walls of hollow cloud. But these she may not wholly grasp With unsupernal clasp. Her eyes inevitably see, 'Neath rounds and changes of exterior things, The movements of Essentiality— Of ageless principles—that alter not To temporal alterings— Unswerved by shattered worlds upbuilt once more, And stars no longer hot; Or broken constellations strewn Like coals about the heavenly floor, And rush of night upon the noon Of their lost worlds, unsphered retrievelessly In icy deserts of the sky. From the beginning of the spheres, When systems nebulous out-thrown Drove back the brinks Of nullity with limitary marks, Till end of suns and sunless death of years, To her are known The unevident inseparable links That bind all deeps, all suns, all days and darks.
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# Ode on Melancholy

* "Ode on Melancholy", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
* "Ode on Melancholy", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder
* "Ode on Melancholy", in Keats; poems published in 1820 (1909), edited by Margaret Robertson
* "Ode on Melancholy", in Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1919), edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch
# Ode on Venice

* Ode in Mazeppa, a Poem (1819)
* Ode on Venice in The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero) Poetry, Volume 4 (1905)
# Ode on a Grecian Urn

poem, written 1819, published in 1820.
* "Ode on a Grecian Urn", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
* "Ode on a Grecian Urn", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder
* "Ode on a Grecian Urn", in Keats; poems published in 1820 (1909), edited by Margaret Robertson
# Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal, and his Army in Africa

* Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal, and his Army, in Africa, in The Dublin University Magazine Volume 3, 1834.
* Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal, and his Army in Africa, in Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans, 1836.
# Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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This version of Thomas Gray's poem is not from a published work. It is compiled from 6 of the 116 watercolour illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems that were produced by William Blake around 1797-1798. Blake cut the text from a 1790 octavo edition of Gray's poems, published by John Murray.
From the layout of the individual artworks, it is clear that Blake conceived of his work as an illustrated book, rather than a series of unbound designs, but it was never published. (Based on The William Blake Archive).
For a detailed, annotated version of this poem, visit The Thomas Gray Archive
* ODE
* ON THE DEATH OF A
* FAVOURITE CAT,
* Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
* Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat.
* Design.
* 1. "Midst the tide
* Two Angel forms were seen to Glide"
* 2. "Demurest of the Tabby kind"
* 3. The pensive Selima
* Her Ears of Jet, & Emerald Eyes,
* She saw & purred applause"
* 4. "Still had she gaz'd but midst the tide
* Two Angel forms were seen to glide,
* The hapless nymph with wonder saw
* A Whisker first & then a Claw, &c"
* 5. Malignant Fate sat by & smiled
* The slippery verge her feet beguild,
* She tumbled headlong in."
* 6.Nine times emerging from the flood
* She mew'd to every watry God"
* ODE
* ON THE DEATH OF A
* FAVOURITE CAT,
* Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
* 'Twas on a lofty vase's side,
* Where China's gayest art had dy'd
* The azure flowers, that blow;
* Demurest of the tabby kind,
* The pensive Selima, reclin'd,
* Gazed on the lake below.
* Her conscious tail her joy declar'd;
* The fair round face, the snowy beard,
* The velvet of her paws;
| Second page | Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purred applause. Still had she gaz'd; but 'midst the tide Two angel forms were seen to glide, The Genii of the stream; Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue, Thro' richest purple to the view Betray'd a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? |
| Third page | Presumptuous maid! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor knew the gulph between. (Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd) The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd, She tumbled headlong in. Eight times emerging from the flood She mew'd to ev'ry wat'ry God, Some speedy aid to send. No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd; Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard, A fav'rite has no friend! From hence, ye beauties, undeceiv'd, Know, one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. |
| Last page | Nor all that tempts your wand'ring eyes, And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold. |
# Notable South Australians/W. Oldham

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W. Oldham
MAY be called the founder of Kapunda, seeing that he Mm was for forty years connected with the town and intimately associated with so many of its useful institutions. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, February 9, 1811, and educated at Trinity College. For some time he was employed as confidential clerk in Guinnesses brewery. He emigrated to South Australia in 1838, and shortly after arrival filled the position of Protector of Aborigines, and in that capacity compiled a grammar of the Adelaide aboriginal tongue. He subsequently opened schools in Light-square, in Gawler, and Angaston. In 1847 he was appointed Purser to the Kapunda Mine, and on the retirement of Captain Bagot succeeded to the managership. He was for twenty years actively engaged in this work, during the flourishing days of the copper industry. He resigned in 1867 a post in which he had given general satisfaction as an arbitrator when disputes ​arose amongst the people, and engaged in business on his own account as a surveyor, architect, &c., and acted as clerk to the Kapunda District Council. Mr. Oldham took great interest in the volunteer movement, and organised the well-known Mines Rifle Company, in which he held in succession the position of Captain and Major. He was also an earnest preacher, and, as a Congregationalist minister, did much good. As a Magistrate for several years, and more recently a Freemason, his name was distinguished, and his character, if only for its ingenious versatility and wealth of resource, was worthy of admiration. He died at Kapunda, July 3, 1885, aged 75.
# Notable South Australians/Walter Duffield, M.L.C., J.P.

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Walter Duffield, M.L.C., J.P.,
Alderman William Kither, J.P.
CAPT. S. W. SWEET.
​with Mr. T. S. Porter, and latterly with his son-in-law, Mr. F. Makin, of Koonoona (an extensive freehold station near Burra Burra), and was for years largely interested in squatting pursuits in the northern portion of this colony and in the Darling district. The Para Para Estate at Gawler, his late residence, is one of the most attractive spots in the southern hemisphere. Mr. Duffield was regarded as a shrewd, straightforward, honest man; bore the highest character amongst those with whom he was brought in contact, was thoroughly respected in the district where he had spent so many years, and his retirement into private life was universally regretted. In his political career he was considered a strictly conscientious representative, and was what may be termed a Liberal Conservative in politics. He left a widow, one son, Mr. D. Walter Duffield, J. P., and five daughters, of whom three are married. One is the wife of Lieut-Colonel Makin, another of Dr. J. Davies Thomas, and a third of Mr. H. T. Bowen.
# Notable South Australians/W. S. M. Hutton

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W. S. M. Hutton,
WHO was connected with the South Australian Civil Service for over twenty years, died in Adelaide on November 30, 1870. He held the following appointments:—Clerk in the Customs Department from 1850 till 1855; promoted to the inspectorship of foot police in the January of that year, and retained that position until May 1856, when he was appointed clerk in the Registry Office, and shortly after transferred to a first-class clerkship in the same department. In May 1860 he was appointed secretary to the Commissioner of Public Works, and in July 1869 gazetted Under-Treasurer by the Strangways Government. After the decease of Mr. Haining he filled the position for nearly two years, when ill-health caused him to resign. He visited Tasmania in the hope that a change from his arduous duties would bring about a restoration to health, but all was in vain, and he returned to his adopted land to die. Mr. Hutton was regarded as one of the most efficient officers in the Public Service, and his courteous and gentlemanly manners caused him to be much esteemed by all with whom he came in contact.
# Notable South Australians/William Bickford

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William Bickford,
ARRIVED in the colony in 1839 with the intention of starting sheepfarming. Before leaving his home in Devonshire, England, he had received glowing and Utopian accounts respecting South Australia, but on arrival failed to find the realization of his hopes. The high prices asked by owners of sheep and cattle caused him to turn his attention to the business he had followed in the home country—a chemist—and he sent to England for a stock of drugs and other requisites and then opened the first druggist's shop in Adelaide. He was eminently successful, and very many of the preparations which he introduced are made up and sold to this day. At the early age of thirty-five years, after three days' illness, he died, leaving a wife and five children. After his decease the business was carried on for some years by the widow, when it ultimately passed into the hands of her sons, William and Harry Bickford, who have extended it until it is known as the leading wholesale druggist and sundry firm in South Australia, under the style and title of A. M. Bickford & Sons.
# Notable South Australians/William Bowen Chinner

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William Bowen Chinner,
BORN in Adelaide, in 1850. Educated at St. Peter's College, under Canon Farr, M.A., LL.D., and earned distinction by gaining a scholarship for classics, given by the late Bishop Short. Received his first musical instruction from his father, the late G. W. Chinner, who was well known ​in the early days of the colony as an experienced authority on musical matters. He afterwards studied the piano, &c., with Signor Giorza, the eminent Italian maestro, Mr. Chinner has long been engaged in teaching various branches of the art, and has for fifteen years been Organist at the Pirie-street Wesleyan Church. He has opened, and taken part in the opening of many of the church organs in and around the city, and on several occasions acted as Organist for the Philharmonic Society and Musical Union. Several of Mr. Chinner's compositions for piano, organ and choir purposes have been published, some of which have acquired popularity, and met with a favorable reception from choirmasters and musicians of standing in England and the Colonies.
# Notable South Australians/W. R. Knox

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W. R. Knox
IS a native of Adelaide, where he was born July 21, 1861. Evinced a talent for music at an early age, and, under the tuition of Mr. Landergan and Signor Paola Giorza (the eminent musician and composer), developed this gift in a remarkable manner. As a token of appreciation of his pupil's proficiency, Signor Giorza, on leaving Adelaide, presented Mr. Knox with a highly-flattering testimonial, in which it is stated that "he is a most accomplished musician." At the age of 18 Mr. Knox made his debut in public as a performer on the organ and piano at the leading concerts in the city, and gained high encomiums for his artistic playing. He is organist of the Flinders-street Presbyterian Church, and on every occasion on which he has presided at his favourite instruments has been listened to with rapt attention. The meritorious task of familiarizing the public with gems from the repertoire of Schubert, Chopin, Mozart, and other great composers, appears to have fallen to Mr. Knox's lot; and South Australians have reason to be proud that one of the native-born is thus early rapidly rising to fame.
# Notable South Australians/W. R. Squibb

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W. R. Squibb,
A NATIVE of London, and resident in this colony from 1839. In his native land he was at different times an actor, preacher, and school-master, and was a profound classical scholar. After his arrival here he was employed in the Government School in Adelaide for about four years. He ​then went to Houghton, and continued to follow educational work there for some years, combining therewith the role of an earnest preacher. On leaving the school, he accepted the position of local Postmaster and Registrar, and held it till about twelve months ago, when illness necessitated his giving his duties up. He will be long remembered as a staunch believer in religious tracts, and he always kept a bundle ready for delivery to passengers by each coach, and is thought in this way to have circulated thousands. With all his eccentricity he was universally liked, and died "full of years and honors," at the age of 79, in May, 1885.
# Notable South Australians/William Bundey, Mayor of Adelaide

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# Notable South Australians/W. W. R. Whitridge

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