 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature - 1884 - 488 pages
...moment after they were written, seemed as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." 16 " Saadi " was published in the " Atlantic Monthly" in 1864, "My Garden" in 1866, " Terminus... | |
 | Henry George Spaulding - Sunday school music - 1884 - 294 pages
...INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES. E of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, All that hope in the Lord. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must 1 The youth replies, I can ! Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. II. HYMN.... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...it is Gray and his age. Now listen to Emerson, who " was not of an age, but for all time." THE ODE. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Tlwu must, The youth replies, lean. Oh, well for the fortunate soul "Which music's wings infold, Stealing... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages :— " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 80 near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1885 - 234 pages
...accustomed us to them. Let me have the pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : " 'Tis... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1885 - 590 pages
..."Usoge» worn out The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out," let Emerson speak : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, ' Thou must !' The youth replies, ' I can !' " Yours truly, GRADUATE. THE ADC PERFORMANCES. To the Editors of the Cambridge Review. SIRS, —... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Robina Forrester Hardy - 1885 - 136 pages
...LASSIE,' 67 DAISY: AN ANGLO-INDIAN SKETCH, . . 117 CHAPTEE I. SUMMONED. 'So nigh is grandeur to the dust,— So near is God to man;— When duty whispers low, " Thou muUJ" The youth replies, " I CAN ! "' ^OME home to-morrow, 3 PM train. We are all well, but you are... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Conduct of life - 1886 - 476 pages
...come. Go and do your duty," and everything generous and noble in the heart responds, and says amen ! " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, 'Thou must! The youth replies, ' I can ! '" These are the great occasions, which come once, often not again. If we let them go by unimproved,... | |
 | Calendars - 1886 - 204 pages
...EE HALE. Woulds't behold beauty Near thee, all around ? Only hath duty . Such a sight found. DWIGHT. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON 17. I will praise the name of God with a song. — Ft. Ixix. 30. Be thou like the bird perched... | |
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