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Friendship

by Anonymous Americas

Friendship needs no studied phrases,
Polished face, or winning wiles;
Friendship deals no lavish praises,
Friendship dons no surface smiles.
Friendship follows nature’s diction,
Shuns the blandishments of art,
Boldly severs truth from fiction,
Speaks the language of the heart.
Friendship favors no condition,
Scorns a narrow-minded creed,
Lovingly fulfills its mission,
Be it word or be it deed.
Friendship cheers the faint and weary,
Makes the timid spirit brave,
Warns the erring, lights the dreary,
Smooths the passage to the grave.
Friendship-pure, unselfish friendship,
All through life’s allotted span,
Nurtures, strengthens, widens, lengthens,
Man’s relationship with man.

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Claire Ambler

Claire Ambler By Booth Tarkington First Edition Signed

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Claire Ambler

By

Booth Tarkington

True 1928 First Edition,First Printing Hardcover In Dustjacket

Hand Signed By The Author (Booth Tarkington) And Publishers (George H. Doran And Frank Nelson Doubleday)

This Is Stated On The Second Flyleaf In Publishers Ink:

To Commemorate The Founding Of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, By The Union Of Doubleday, Page & Co. And George H. Doran Company This Volume Over The New Imprint Has Been Autographed By The Author And The Publishers.

The Book Is Bound In Japan Vellum Over Boards

Gilt Single Rule By The Spine

Paper Title Label At The Upper Spine

A Gilt Top Edge And Deckled Edges

Pictorial Pastedowns And Endpages

A Red And Black Title Page

253 Pages Complete Tight Contents Secure At The Hinges

In A Whole Price Intact Upper Front Flap Pictorial Dustjacket

Stated 1928 First Edition On The Copyright Page

A Contemplation of What Has Been Created

by Jimmy Carter

I tried to fathom nature’s laws
from twirling models and schoolroom sketches
of molecules and parts of atoms,
and nearly believed — but then came quarks,
bosons, leptons, antiparticles,
opposite-turning mirror images,
some that perforate the earth,
never swerving from their certain paths.
I’ve listened to conflicting views
about the grand and lesser worlds:
a big bang where it all began;
of curved, ever-expanding space;
perhaps tremendous whirling yo-yos
that will someday reach the end
of cosmic gravity and then
fly back to where they can restart
or cataclysmically blow apart —
and then, and then the next event.
And will it be an accident?

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On Death, Without Exaggeration

It can’t take a joke,
find a star, make a bridge.
It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming,
building ships, or baking cakes.

In our planning for tomorrow,
it has the final word,
which is always beside the point.

It can’t even get the things done
that are part of its trade:
dig a grave,
make a coffin,
clean up after itself.

Preoccupied with killing,
it does the job awkwardly,
without system or skill.
As though each of us were its first kill.

Oh, it has its triumphs,
but look at its countless defeats,
missed blows,
and repeat attempts!

Sometimes it isn’t strong enough
to swat a fly from the air.
Many are the caterpillars
that have outcrawled it.

All those bulbs, pods,
tentacles, fins, tracheae,
nuptial plumage, and winter fur
show that it has fallen behind
with its halfhearted work.

Ill will won’t help
and even our lending a hand with wars and coups d’etat
is so far not enough.

Hearts beat inside eggs.
Babies’ skeletons grow.
Seeds, hard at work, sprout their first tiny pair of leaves
and sometimes even tall trees fall away.

Whoever claims that it’s omnipotent
is himself living proof
that it’s not.

There’s no life
that couldn’t be immortal
if only for a moment.

Death
always arrives by that very moment too late.

In vain it tugs at the knob
of the invisible door.
As far as you’ve come
can’t be undone.

Wislawa Szymborska

The Unknown Quantity

The Unknown Quantity-Elaborate Margaret Armstrong Cover

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The Unknown Quantity

By

Henry Van Dyke

Elaborate Cover Design Done By Margaret Armstrong

It’s The 1912 First Edition Published By Charles Scribner’s Sons,New York

Same Date/No Others

Illustrated By Vignettes,Tailpieces,Headpieces And Full Page Plates Blank On The Reverse

The Book Is Gorgeous, It’s In Very Good Condition

• Gilt Stamped Margaret Armstrong Initals At The Lower Front Cloth Board

• Elaborate Cover Design Done In Gilt, Orange And Pale Yellow Over Full Dark Blue Cloth

• 7-1/2 ” Tall

• A Gilt Top Edge And Deckled Edges

• Gorgeous Vignette Title Page

• 370 Pages Complete Tight Contents And Deckled Edges

• IceRocket Tags: Henry Van Dyke,Margaret Armstrong