 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
...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 - 934 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
...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,... | |
 | Eye Witness, Sophia Gertrude Wintz - 1878 - 190 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 - 350 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 - 277 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
...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... | |
 | John Bradley Peaslee - 1880 - 184 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 - 160 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
...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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