 Are you so dull, so deaf and blind indeed, That you mistake the harvest for the seed?" Condemn them for — but stay! Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode: Smug sophistries that smother and befool, That numb and stupefy;...  Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 6831915Full view - About this book
 | Social problems - 1917 - 230 pages
...the boxes and behind the scenes, Then to the push-cart and the limousines! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet-blast and...harvest for the seed?" Condemn them for — but stay! Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode; Smug sophistries that smother... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1917 - 442 pages
...poem and see how the sermonizing element enters: "Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode; Smug sophistries that smother and befool, That numb and stupify; that clumsy thing That measures mountains with a three-foot rule, And plumbs the ocean with... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1917 - 438 pages
...poem and see how the sermonizing element enters: "Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode ; Smug sophistries that smother and befool, That numb and stupify; that clumsy thing That measures mountains with a three-foot rule, And plumbs the ocean with... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1918 - 356 pages
...the boxes and behind the scenes, Then to the push-carts and the limousines! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet-blast and...harvest for the seed?" Condemn them for — but stay! Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode: Smug sophistries that smother... | |
 | Ethel Maude Colson - Poetry - 1918 - 206 pages
...the boxes and behind the scenes, Then to the push-carts and the limousines ! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet-blast and...harvest for the seed?" Condemn them for — but stay ! Let's call the code — The facile thing they've fashioned to their mode : Smug sophistries that... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...push-carts and the limousines! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet blast s our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so...within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, an Let's call the code — That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode: Smug sophistries that smother... | |
 | Ethel Maude Colson - Poetry - 1918 - 200 pages
...harvest for the seed?" Condemn them for — but stay ! Let's call the code — The facile thing they've fashioned to their mode : Smug sophistries that smother...and befool, That numb and stupefy; that clumsy thing And plumbs the ocean with a puddingstring — The little, brittle code. Here is the root, Far out of... | |
 | I. Paul Taylor - Detroit (Mich.) - 1920 - 148 pages
...push-carts and the limousines! Arouse the lecture room, the cabaret! Confound them with the trumpet blast and say: "Are you so dull, so deaf and blind indeed,...you mistake the harvest for the seed ?" Condemn them for—but stay! Let's call the code. That facile thing they've fashioned to their mode: Smug sophistries... | |
 | Ruth Comfort Mitchell - 1923 - 208 pages
...carts and the limousines! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet blast and say, " Are you so dull, so deaf and blind indeed,...sophistries that smother and befool, That numb and stupify ; that clumsy thing That measures mountains with a three-foot rule, And plumbs the ocean with... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1926 - 308 pages
...carts and the limousines! Arouse the lecture-room, the cabaret! Confound them with a trumpet blast and say, "Are you so dull, so deaf and blind indeed, That you mistake the harvest for the seed?" 603 RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Condemn them for — but stay! Let's call the code — That facile thing... | |
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