For Student Days and BirthdaysB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1899 - 376 pages |
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... August 2 . Tr . by H. L. W. THE reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets , not in mak- ing cages . IN a season of calm weather Though inland far we be , Dean Swift . Our souls have ...
... August 2 . Tr . by H. L. W. THE reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets , not in mak- ing cages . IN a season of calm weather Though inland far we be , Dean Swift . Our souls have ...
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... August 4 . P. B. SHELLEY , 1792 . MOST wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song . Life , like a dome of many - colored glass , Stains the white radiance of ... August 3 . August 4. ...
... August 4 . P. B. SHELLEY , 1792 . MOST wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song . Life , like a dome of many - colored glass , Stains the white radiance of ... August 3 . August 4. ...
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... August 6 . FÉNELON , 1651 . ALFRED TENNYSON , 1809 . THE true mainspring of our perfection is contained in these words of God to Abraham , " Walk in my presence , and thou shalt be perfect . " Fénelon . NOBLY to do , nobly to die ...
... August 6 . FÉNELON , 1651 . ALFRED TENNYSON , 1809 . THE true mainspring of our perfection is contained in these words of God to Abraham , " Walk in my presence , and thou shalt be perfect . " Fénelon . NOBLY to do , nobly to die ...
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... August 8 . How to the singer comes the song ? How to the summer fields Darkness to happy morn ? Come flowers ? How yields How doth the night Bring stars ? Oh , how do love and light Leap at sound and sight Of her who makes this dark ...
... August 8 . How to the singer comes the song ? How to the summer fields Darkness to happy morn ? Come flowers ? How yields How doth the night Bring stars ? Oh , how do love and light Leap at sound and sight Of her who makes this dark ...
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... August 10 . OBEDIENCE is our universal duty and destiny ; wherein . whoso will not bend must break : too early and too thor- oughly we cannot be trained to know that Would , in this world of ours , is as mere zero to Should , and for ...
... August 10 . OBEDIENCE is our universal duty and destiny ; wherein . whoso will not bend must break : too early and too thor- oughly we cannot be trained to know that Would , in this world of ours , is as mere zero to Should , and for ...
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Page 31 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 7 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise ; I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 13 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 19 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 29 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 29 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 9 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 23 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 3 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 5 - Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!