 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 Seiten
...echoed farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 Seiten
...in their inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for being... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 Seiten
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 344 Seiten
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation of men to follow their... | |
 | 1887 - 616 Seiten
...the lips of the man whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 Seiten
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, ^ When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 2 The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth - 1887 - 122 Seiten
...beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, SHAKESPEARE. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians.... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1894 - 900 Seiten
...same ungrudging sacrifice of all for them, if the need come. " How nigh is grandeur to our dust, How near is God to man ! When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " Emerson was a New Engländer in every fibre, and it is the soul of New England that speaks in his... | |
 | 1888 - 432 Seiten
...God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader vieAv. JG HOLLAND. DUTY. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. A FAKEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull... | |
 | 1888 - 248 Seiten
...repentances. The life of God and the life of man are all interwoven in the web of human experiences. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " There is but one way of separating the life of God from the souls of men. It is by withdrawing one's... | |
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