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Page 57 - Roosted; the cattle at the pasture bars Lowed, and looked homeward; bats on leathern wings Flitted abroad; the sounds of labor died; Men prayed, and women wept; all ears grew sharp To hear the doom-blast...
Page 26 - Easier to smite with Peter's sword Than "watch one hour" in humbling prayer. Life's " great things," like the Syrian lord, Our hearts can do and dare.
Page 67 - Let ardent heroes seek renown in arms, Pant after fame and rush to war's alarms ; . To shining palaces let fools resort, And dunces cringe to be esteemed at court.
Page 32 - Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude.
Page 77 - KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS. OUT from Jerusalem The king rode with his great War chiefs and lords of state, And Sheba's queen with them ; Comely, but black withal, To whom, perchance, belongs That wondrous Song of songs, Sensuous and mystical, Whereto devout souls turn In fond, ecstatic dream, And through its earth-born theme The Love of loves discern.
Page 58 - Let us kneel: God's own voice is in that peal, And this spot is holy ground. Lord, forgive us! What are we. That our eyes this glory see, That our ears have heard the sound...
Page 30 - Its vane slow turning in the liquid sky, Where, in light gambols, healthy striplings sport, Ambitious learning builds her outer court; A grave preceptor, there, her usher stands, And rules, without a rod, her little bands. Some half-grown sprigs of learning...
Page 19 - He bowed him to bear, Nor my knees press Gethsemane's garden of prayer. Yet loved of the Father, thy Spirit is near To the meek, and the lowly, and penitent here ; And the voice of thy love is the same even now, As at Bethany's tomb, or on Olivet's brow.
Page 70 - In simple trust like theirs who heard Beside the Syrian sea The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word, Rise up and follow thee.
Page 65 - There umber'd streams in purple pomp ascend. In fiery eddies round the tott'ring walls, Emitting sparks, the lighter fragments fly ; With frightful crash the burning mansion falls, The works of years in glowing embers lie. Tryon, behold thy sanguine flames aspire, Clouds...