Caleb Field

“Behold Beneath our feet a little lowly vale. A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time, by wish of theirs, So place...

“When I view abroad both regiments, The world’s and thine, Thine clad with simpleness and sad events, The other, fine-- Full of glory and gay weeds, Brave language--braver deeds...

“You look pale and gaze, And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder, To see the strange impatience of the heavens: But if you would consider the true cause Why all these fires,...

“The bounteous hand--I would ’most envy it; And more, the heart that’s bountiful. Oh, rich men! Be glad that God does make you bankers for Him, And bids ye sanctify your increas...

“She had a treasure Of wondrous coin--stamped with His gentle image Who is in heaven, and was on earth and spake As man ne’er spake but He. Ah, gentle words! kind utterance of p...

The next day--this time with a little less excitement, a quieter knowledge of what was likely to be required of her, Edith Field again went forth to her labor. In so little time...

“It is the business of a gentleman to be hospitable, following those noble gentlemen Abraham and Lot. It is his business to maintain peace, whereto he hath that brave gentleman,...

“When all is done that mortal might can do, And all that’s done is naught; when wisdom fails, And the strong hand grows feeble, and the heart That was most valiant sinks into th...

Upon the evening of that day, Caleb Field and his daughter sat in Dame Rogers’s better room alone. The minister had newly returned from the strenuous labors of his vocation, and...

“Good brother rest--the toil is overpast The weariness, the travail, and the tears--. All that did trouble thee--and now beholding From the high heaven how we lay up thy garment...