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Astronomic Publishing Company, 1893 - 186 страници

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Страница 180 - Back of the canvas that throbs, the painter is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden; Under the joy that is felt, lie the infinite issues of feeling; Crowning the glory revealed, is the glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator; Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives...
Страница 180 - Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer ; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter ; And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.
Страница 141 - Noiselessly, as the Daylight comes back when Night is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek grows into the great sun Noiselessly, as the spring-time her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills open their thousand leaves...
Страница 131 - The giddy paused, — the mourner's hope had birth. " I have seen one, whose eloquence commanding Roused the rich echoes of the human breast, The blandishments of wealth and ease withstanding, That hope might reach the suffering and oppressed.
Страница 181 - ... stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Space is as nothing to spirit, the deed is outdone by the doing; The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer the heart of the wooing; And up from the pits where these shiver, and up from the heights where those shine, Twin voices and shadows swim starward, and the essence of life is divine.
Страница 132 - O ! many a spirit walks the world unheeded, That, when its veil of sadness is laid down, Shall soar aloft with pinions unimpeded, And wear its glory like a starry crown.
Страница 62 - Now constellations, Muse, and signs rehearse; In order let them sparkle in thy verse; First Aries, glorious in his golden wool, Looks back, and wonders at the mighty Bull, Whose hind parts first appear, he bending lies, With threatening head, and calls the Twins to rise; They clasp for fear, and mutually embrace, And next the Twins with an unsteady pace Bright Cancer...
Страница 4 - To ease the steps and lift the load Of souls that falter on the road. The perilous music that he hears Falls from the vortice of the spheres. He presses on before the race, And sings out of a silent place. Like faint notes of a forest bird On heights afar that voice is heard ; And the dim path he breaks to-day Will some time be a trodden way. But when the race comes toiling on That voice of wonder will be gone — Be heard on higher peaks afar, Moved upward with the morning star. O men of earth,...
Страница 41 - Then shall the good stand in immortal bloom, In the fair gardens of that second birth ; And each bright blossom, mingle its perfume With that of flowers, which never bloomed on earth.
Страница 174 - Slaves of a generous Master, Born from a world above, We came to this place in His wisdom We stay to this hour from His love. " We have fed His humblest creatures, We have served Him truly and long; He gave no grace to our features, We have neither color nor song. " Yet He who has made the flowers Placed us on the self-same sod ; He knows our reason for being, — We are grass in the garden of God.

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