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... night is breaking , E'en now the sunbeams rest , With a faint yet cheering radiance , On the hill - tops of the west . The mists are slowly rising From the valley and the plain ; And a spirit is awaking , That shall never sleep again ...
... night is breaking , E'en now the sunbeams rest , With a faint yet cheering radiance , On the hill - tops of the west . The mists are slowly rising From the valley and the plain ; And a spirit is awaking , That shall never sleep again ...
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... night ? " Nor shall ye check my impulse , Nor stay it for an hour , Until earth's groaning millions Have felt my healing power . " That spirit is Progression , In the vigour of its youth ; The foeman of Oppression , And its armour is ...
... night ? " Nor shall ye check my impulse , Nor stay it for an hour , Until earth's groaning millions Have felt my healing power . " That spirit is Progression , In the vigour of its youth ; The foeman of Oppression , And its armour is ...
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... night- What visions and what dreams have ta'en their flight ! Fast waves of hours have sought the Eternal sea , - We , too , draw near our Immortality ! Another leaf is from our Life - tree shaken- Another step Eternity hath taken . How ...
... night- What visions and what dreams have ta'en their flight ! Fast waves of hours have sought the Eternal sea , - We , too , draw near our Immortality ! Another leaf is from our Life - tree shaken- Another step Eternity hath taken . How ...
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... its elegant psalm— Nerve and sensation in quiet reposing , Silent as blossoms the night - dew is closing , But the full heart beating strongly and calm . Indolent ! indolent ! -yes , I am indolent , 4 HERO WORSHIP 37 INDOLENCE.
... its elegant psalm— Nerve and sensation in quiet reposing , Silent as blossoms the night - dew is closing , But the full heart beating strongly and calm . Indolent ! indolent ! -yes , I am indolent , 4 HERO WORSHIP 37 INDOLENCE.
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... night , an orphan child Walked trembling through the snow ; With sighs he marked the hurrying guests Pass gayly to and fro . With sighs he marked the many lights Outshining far and nigh ; The night was dark , and over all There arched a ...
... night , an orphan child Walked trembling through the snow ; With sighs he marked the hurrying guests Pass gayly to and fro . With sighs he marked the many lights Outshining far and nigh ; The night was dark , and over all There arched a ...
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Page 232 - Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending...
Page 208 - ... and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 124 - The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade.
Page 97 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 114 - The time is come. See how he points his eager hand this way ! See how his eyes gloat on thy grief, like a kite's upon the prey ! With all his wit, he little deems, that, spurned, betrayed, bereft, Thy father hath in his despair one fearful refuge left. He little deems that in this hand I clutch what still can save Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave ; Yea, and from nameless evil, that passeth taunt and blow — Foul outrage which thou knowest not, which thou shalt never...
Page 62 - Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out; And when the silver habit of the clouds Comes down upon the autumn sun, and with A sober gladness the old year takes up His bright inheritance of golden fruits, A pomp and pageant fill the splendid scene. There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellow richness on the clustered trees...
Page 312 - Twa bairns, and but ae heart ! 'Twas then we sat on ae laigh bink, To leir ilk ither lear ; And tones and looks and smiles were shed, Remembered evermair. 1 wonder Jeanie, aften yet, When sitting on that bink, Cheek touchin' cheek, loof locked in loof, What our wee heads could think. When baith bent doun ower ae braid page, Wi' ae buik on our knee, Thy lips were on thy lesson, but My lesson was in thee.
Page 124 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace...
Page 243 - And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: my father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Page 219 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.