 He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of Earth — E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth.  The University Record - Seite 141von University of Chicago - 1917Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Dick Douglas, Jr., Robert Dick Douglas - 2007 - 340 Seiten
...felt went straight to heaven. He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of earth; Even as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth; In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth. In that same poem there is another line about... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1086 Seiten
...and books of reference in vain. You will laugh us to scorn when I tell you that it is the familiar, 'E'en as he trod that day to God So walked he from his blrth, In simpleness and gentleness And honour and clean mirtfi.''"3 but I am dashed if I can remember... | |
 | Kappa Sigma Fraternity - 1928 - 100 Seiten
...express the depth of our emotions, but we think of Brother Doswell in Kipling's words: "He scarce had need to doff his pride Or slough the dross of earth...trod that day to God So walked he from his birth In simpleness and gentleness In honor and clean mirth." TN the tender language of Brother Edwin L. 1 Stephens,... | |
 | 1908 - 660 Seiten
...the service of the college for thirty-six years, or until his death in November, 1898. "He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of earth...trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth." PROFESSOR MITCHELL. It was a privilege to know... | |
 | 1919 - 378 Seiten
...pass on the torch to those who follow and who will carry it to even greater heights: "I le scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of earth;...trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth." "I cannot think of any man to whom those words... | |
 | Charles Elston Nixon - 1903 - 518 Seiten
...To such as these, "borne on the breath that men call Death, my brother's spirit came." He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of Earth...trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth. So cup to lip in fellowship they gave him welcome... | |
 | 1912 - 616 Seiten
...of the friends he made, and is worthy of the indelible impression he had made upon their lives. "For as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth ; in gentleness, and kindliness, in honor, and in worth." HON. BARTLETT TRIPP HON. BARTLETT TRIPP On Friday morning, December... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - 1908 - 330 Seiten
...— men for they Stooped to fame, Borne on the breath that men call death, my Brother's spirit came, E'en as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth,— In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth, So cup to lip in fellowship they gave him greeting... | |
 | 1912 - 834 Seiten
...author of the following quotation, which appears at the end of Henderson's ' Stonewal." Jackson ' ? — E'en as he trod that day to God • So walked he from his birth In simpleness, and gentleness and honour And clean mirth. J. BEACH WHITMORE. Who wrote a poem in which... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1895 - 520 Seiten
...gentleman for us thus :— r He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of EarthE'en as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. A very beautiful picture is given in his story... | |
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