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DisplayImage("intro", "front1", "
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DisplayImagewithCaption("intro", "front2", "
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"2", "2", "[Frontispiece]", SmallCapsText("David Livingstone.")) ?>
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StoryTitle("caps", "Proem") ?>
To little Ardale and all his merry kind
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Lights of Life") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dew stands on the dormer panes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The cross November sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Has sent the daylight off to bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Before the night's begun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dull red embers, half aglow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Are sulking in the grate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let the lonely shadows grow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "All dark and desolate;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shadows of things that go awry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Or waver to and fro;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shadows of playthings bought so dear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And broken long ago;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shadows of friends who played till mirth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Grew sad and went in pain:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where is the merry light that makes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Old shadows smile again?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark! little sandals softly beat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Upon the attic stair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And truant mischief breathless creeps", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "With whispered, \"Is he there?\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(vi, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A story? 'Tis a fateful task", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "To fill the open brow:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who knows what plans of God depend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "On all it garners now?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where shall we lead the clambering limbs,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The big blue fearless eyes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down to the gold mine's narrowing drift,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Or to the widening skies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, in the space around the stars,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Are countless worlds astray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose peoples call for pioneers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "To find the safer way?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay, let us tell the generous tale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Of giants real and bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who grew so great they would not stoop", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "To gather fame and gold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hurled the mountains from our path,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And drained our quagmires dry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And held our foes at bay the while", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "They bore our weaklings by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Giants by whose unselfish toil", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Our land was first begun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where good and useful men and maids", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Make merry as they run.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, may you miss the dismal tracks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "That aimless feet have trod,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And follow where our pioneers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Make open ways to God.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", smallcapstext("—Vautier Golding.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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DisplayImage("intro", "front5", "
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DisplayImage("intro", "front6", "
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