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... singing , a comprehensive collection of the sweetest notes of their songs is clearly impossible . Where so much music is , however , even the few tones of a small collection may make a symphony of thought which shall enliven the working ...
... singing , a comprehensive collection of the sweetest notes of their songs is clearly impossible . Where so much music is , however , even the few tones of a small collection may make a symphony of thought which shall enliven the working ...
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... sing ; Ye trees that fade , when autumn heats remove , Say , is not absence death to those who love ? Pope : Autumn . There's not an hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee : There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And ...
... sing ; Ye trees that fade , when autumn heats remove , Say , is not absence death to those who love ? Pope : Autumn . There's not an hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee : There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And ...
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... Sing the song of great joy that the angels began , Sing of glory to God and of good will to man ! Hark ! joining in chorus The heavens bend o'er us ! The dark night is ending , and dawn has begun . Whittier : A Christmas Carmen . No ...
... Sing the song of great joy that the angels began , Sing of glory to God and of good will to man ! Hark ! joining in chorus The heavens bend o'er us ! The dark night is ending , and dawn has begun . Whittier : A Christmas Carmen . No ...
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... sing because I must , And pipe but as the linnets sing . Tennyson : In Memoriam . Short swallow - flights of song , that dip and The Handbook of Quotations 155.
... sing because I must , And pipe but as the linnets sing . Tennyson : In Memoriam . Short swallow - flights of song , that dip and The Handbook of Quotations 155.
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... Sing as you will , O singers all , Who sing because you want to sing ! Sing any song and anyhow , But Sing ! Sing ! Sing ! Nature ; see Deity . • James Whitcomb Riley . In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God ...
... Sing as you will , O singers all , Who sing because you want to sing ! Sing any song and anyhow , But Sing ! Sing ! Sing ! Nature ; see Deity . • James Whitcomb Riley . In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God ...
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Page 130 - Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 54 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 174 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 55 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 13 - 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 53 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 61 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, 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 150 - Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 177 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 64 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...