 | Christian life - 1883 - 404 pages
...recently dead, has put this story, or the idea of it, into one of his poems, called 'The Builders.' " In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods ' are everywhere.' " It would be well for us always to bear in mind that our God sees, whatever be... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 668 pages
...HELGA. ARCHITECTURE ш OLD TIMES. — In Longfellow's poem of ' The Builders ' we find this stanza : — In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. That this is something more than mere poetical hyperbole seems to be shown by a passage in Mozley's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...of rhyme. Nothing useless is or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials...care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see every where. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where gods... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE BUILDERS. ALL arc architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time...the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Make the house where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and eleaii. Else our lives are incomplete,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...prospects drear ; An' forward, though I canna see, I guess, an' fear. IK'RNS. LONGFELLOW. 323 ifte All are architects of fate, Working in these walls...greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods are every where. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; 334 A GARDEN IN SPUING.... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 416 pages
...everything secure and perfect, the unseen as well as the seen. " In the elder days of art, Buildera wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere." The trait we speak of, is desirable in every one. It is often remarked, in effect, that an honest boy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...And burns to ashes in the skies. THE BUILDERS. ALT, are architects of Fate, Working in these walla of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some...care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see every where. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where gods... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...those parts of the building most remote from the public eye were finished, even as those most seen. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods are everywhere. It is the work of time either to detect or to vindicate the architecture of every conspicuous... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE BUILDERS. ALL are architects of Fate Working in these walls...the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, _ Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some v, ith ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low, Each...greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods are everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house where gods... | |
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In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. 
