| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 Seiten
...That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloHi and ease. So nigh is grandenr to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. IV. 0, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 Seiten
...victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOMF, of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...glorified, — Victor over death and pain, . Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOME of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived,... | |
| dame Sophia Gertrude Wintz - 1878 - 230 Seiten
...waft the breath of grace Divine To hearts in sloth and ease ; — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low 'THOU MUST,' The Soul replies ' I CAN ! ' " —EMERSON. II. SOME of us who are lovers of mountain and moorland scenery... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 Seiten
...their selfishness and envy, but to their honor and their truth. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low Thou must, The heart replies I can." But if the preachers have of late been more reluctant than formerly to enter... | |
| Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 Seiten
...strong. At thought of that insatiate grave From which its yearnings cannot save. WC Bryant. January 5. Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...voice without reply — "'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." Jt. W. Emerson. Men's lives, like oceans, change In shifting... | |
| 1880 - 672 Seiten
...might have written : " Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came...voice without reply — ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, "When for the truth he ought to die.' " The poem entitled " Brahma," too hastily ridiculed at... | |
| 1880 - 208 Seiten
...—Shakespeare: ''Midsummer Night's Dream" Act v, Sc. I. LIX.—HEROISM.* So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ''Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." —Ralph Waldo Emerson. LX.—OBEDIENCE. THREE roots bear up Dominion: Knowledge, Will,— These twain... | |
| Thomas Hughes - 1880 - 180 Seiten
...will of my Father and your Father." PAET III. CHEIST'S BOYHOOD. " So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." — EMERSON. ONE great difficulty meets the student of our Lord's life and character from whatever... | |
| 1883 - 684 Seiten
...this harmony from which arises the power to obey, when he said : " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must!' The youth replies, 'lean!'" The perfect harmony of body and spirit knows no ill-health ; all sickness is sin, the effect... | |
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