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Page 113 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 17 - Tis mine, my children's, and my name's: How sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees! How graceful climb those shadows on my hill! I fancy these pure waters and the flags Know me, as does my dog: we sympathize; And, I affirm, my actions smack of the soil.
Page 17 - Clear of the grave. They added ridge to valley, brook to pond, And sighed for all that bounded their domain; 'This suits me for a pasture; that's my park; We must have clay, lime, gravel, granite-ledge, And misty lowland, where to go for peat.
Page 116 - ... happier air. From imperfection's murkiest cloud, Darts always forth one ray of perfect light, One flash of heaven's glory. To fashion's, custom's discord, To the mad Babel-din, the deafening orgies, Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard, From some far shore the final chorus sounding. O the blest eyes, the happy hearts, That see, that know the guiding thread so fine, Along the mighty labyrinth.
Page 14 - The whole of an organic realm is a part of a celestial sphere, as that sphere is of a solar system, and that, in turn, of greater stellar associations. Such appears to be the order of individualities. They are distinct because they represent localized modes of action; they are absolutely blended with the whole because the whole is a unit; it may be termed 'the supreme individual,' which has all its relations within itself.
Page 123 - O WHAT are heroes, prophets, men, But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow A momentary music. Being's tide Swells hitherward, and myriads of forms Live, robed with beauty, painted by the sun ; Their dust, pervaded by the nerves of God, Throbs with an overmastering energy Knowing and doing. Ebbs the tide, they lie White hollow shells upon the desert shore, But not the less the eternal wave rolls...
Page 6 - He beholds in human life one great meaning, fellowship, and he finds it not only in human life but also in the entire universe in which man has his little place. To socialize all our attitudes — toward inanimate nature as well as toward humanity and toward God — becomes for him the all-controlling purpose in religious education.
Page 51 - ... it is no wonder that the beliefs of the fathers should seem only the useful incidents of an historic past, and quite inapplicable to the improved conditions of the present day : 'Tis irrecoverable, that ancient faith, Homely and wholesome, suited to the time, With rod or candy for child-minded men. Nothing that keeps thought out is safe from thought, *••« + -* • And Truth defensive hath lost hold on God. • *•»*•* Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy,...
Page 37 - It is interesting to note the changes that have occurred in the last half century in teaching even the simplest branches, as, for example, reading.