...the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must.' The youth replies, " I can." 5. A wonderful thing is a seed ; The one thing deathless forever — Forever old and forever...

...wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterwards said: " I love inexpressibly these streets of...

...if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." "Saadi " was published in "The Atlantic Monthly " in 1864, "My Garden " in 1866, "Terminus...

...ix. 23. Nothing shall be impossible unto you. — MATT. xvii. 20. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. RW EMERSON. that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order,...

...people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. — JUDGES v. 18. THOUGH Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. RW EMERSON. COME say that...

...pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages :— ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, .When Duty whispers low, Thou...voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."' Excellent! but how seldom do we get from him a strain blown...

...grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : " "Pis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." ' Excellent ! but how seldom...

...forth, the hearts of them torn out," let Emerson speak : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must !' The youth replies, ' I can !' " Yours truly, GRADUATE. THE ADC PERFORMANCES. To the Editors of the Cambridge Review. SIRS,...

...pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply...

...repudiate that doctrine. I give you a finer and a nobler motto — So nigh is glory to our duty, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low "Thou must," The soul replies, "I can." And if I am to speak to you about duties, I will mention one which is too often...