A V.A.D. in France

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Richards, 1917 - 348 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 202 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
الصفحة 70 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
الصفحة 13 - What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? With your glorious eyes austere, As the Lord were walking near, Whispering terrible things and dear As the Song on your bugles blown, England — Round the world on your bugles blown! Where shall the watchful sun, England, my England, Match the master-work you've done, England, my own? When shall he...
الصفحة 18 - Ever the faith endures, England, my England: — "Take and break us: we are yours, England, my own! Life Is good, and joy runs high Between English earth and sky; Death Is death; but we shall die To the Song on your bugles blown, England— To the stars on your bugles blown!
الصفحة 157 - There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams. There's a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true, Till the day when I'll be going down That long, long trail with you.
الصفحة 15 - And yet the New Army of men would need a New Army of nurses. Why not go and learn to be a nurse while the Kitchener men were learning to be...
الصفحة 30 - Fortunately, however, neither of us were either overwhelmed with, or impressed by, our manifold shortcomings. Also we were so lacking in awe as to prefer having more faith in the knowledge of the Government than the opinion (or possibly the prejudice) of an individual nurse.
الصفحة 78 - ... the same answer; so at last they left off, and tried to trouble him in another way. We may learn here, a lesson of industry from Nehemiah. We have not walls and cities to build, as he had, but we all have some business to do. And how should we do it? Very quickly, and very diligently; because we have much to do, and very little time to do it in. "Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest.
الصفحة 159 - PART I 1. We commence. 2. Smith asks Romeo for a row. 3. Brown wants to sing — so let him. 4. Jones bursts into song. The audience will probably burst into tears. 5. Robinson will oblige. 6. Smithson insists and won't be kept back. 7. Sketch — Some lorry inspection.
الصفحة 166 - I clicked for beds and sister's told me off now," I hear him informing the orderly. " I'll cut the bread if you like. I seem to be the onion this afternoon.

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