The Cornell Era, Volume 34

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Page 16 - Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going — let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 306 - ... The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
Page 355 - 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; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 114 - O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Page 179 - I simply obeyed the injunction, ' whatever thy hand findeth to do, that do with all thy might, ' and so I took up what came along as it came. Since then I have gone on Lincoln's motto, ' Do the best; if not. then the best possible.
Page 177 - ... determined to be strong and well, and did everything to make myself so. By the time I entered Harvard College I was able to take my part in whatever sports I liked. I wrestled and sparred and ran a great deal while in college, and, though I never came in first, I got more good out of the exercise than those who did, because I immensely enjoyed it and never injured myself.
Page 353 - There is a land,|| of every land the pride, Beloved of heaven [| o'er all the world beside; Where brighter suns || dispense serener light, And milder moons || imparadise the night.
Page 177 - I made my health what it is. I determined to be strong and well, and did everything to make myself so.
Page 372 - Books in a Hurry And at New York prices, singly or by the dozen, may be obtained Second-hand or new. by any boy or girl in the remotest hamlet, or any teacher or official anywhere, and DELIVERY PREPAID Brand new.

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