gladsome

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Longfellow has given us an exquisite translation of one of these in “The Golden Legend”: O Gladsome Light Of the Father immortal, And of the celestial Sacred and blessed Jesus, our Saviour!

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin

Gladsome was the feast that day at Brougham Castle; joyous were the songs of the minstrel bards as they celebrated, in extempore verse, the exile’s restoration to his long lost home.

From The Grateful Indian And other Stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles

"Doris has them, and Gladsome, too," answered Jean.

From Kit of Greenacre Farm by Forrester, Izola L. (Izola Louise)

There the gods’ warder drinks, In peaceful old halls, Gladsome the good mead.”

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the      wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be      saved evermore.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir