 | Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...night-watches, sky above and wave below, Thou didst learn a higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know : God's stars and silence taught thee, as His...sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is Man." Our poet, too, conversing with God's stars and silence, has come to an understanding with himself,... | |
 | Jonathan Walker - Abolitionists - 1848 - 144 pages
...above and wave below, fhou did'at learn a higher wisdom than the babbling school-men know , God'a Stan and silence taught thee as His angels only can, That, the one, sole sacred Mng beneath the cope of heaven is MAN f That he, who treads profanely on the scrolls of law and creed,... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 896 pages
...above and wave below, Thou dld&t learn a higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know : God's sura and silence taught thee as His angels only can. That...one, sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven Is HJL* '.— That he who treads profanely on the scrolls of law and creed, In the depth of God's great... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 756 pages
...higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know : God's stars and silence taught thee, as His angeU only can, That the one, sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is Man." Our poet, too, convening with God's rtan 9nd silence, has come to an understanding with himself, and... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
..." between a mere man and a brute ? " Whittier's verses taught the youth of that earlier generation that " the one sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is man." When men believe their fellow-beings are little better than beasts they go to their aid reluctantly,... | |
 | Gerrit Smith - Abolitionists - 1860 - 44 pages
...common nature. In every part of our country the •work is still undone of bringing men to believe ' That the one sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is MAN !' " Open the eyes of the slaveholder to the greatness and glory of man—even of the most bruised... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...and long night watches, sky abo\e and wave below, God's stars and silence taught thee, as his angela only can, That the one, sole sacred thing beneath...Man ! That he who treads profanely on the scrolls ~>f law and creed, In the depth of God's great goodness may find mercy in his need ; But woe to him... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...night-watches, sky above and wave below, Thou didst learn a higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know ; God's stars and silence taught thee, as his...sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is Man I That he who treads profanely on the scrolls of law and creed, In the depth of God's great goodness... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 pages
...didst learn a higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know ; God's stars and silence taught thce, as his angels only can, That the one sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is Man I That he who treads profanely on the scrolls of law and creed, In the depth of God s great goodness... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1885 - 1134 pages
...reasons, is all the apology that can be made for breaking the silence. Whittier long years ago sang: "The one sole sacred thing beneath the cope of Heaven is man," and we may add, it is the thought of man that makes the one sacred and most valuable element in him.... | |
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In thy lone and long night-watches, sky above and wave below, Thou didst learn a higher wisdom than the babbling schoolmen know ; God's stars and silence taught thee, as his angels only can, That the one sole sacred thing beneath the cope of heaven is... 
