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aspiration beautiful become blending Blessed cause church color contains solar cultivate divine earth embryo eternal everywhere exalted view experience expression face fear and superstition feeling flower flying dragon freedom friends genesis germ grasp hand harmony heart heaven Herbert Spencer human nature ideal infusoria itual John Weiss line of beauty live look ments mind moods moral mountains mysterious universe mystery never noble outward nature patiently invite perfect poetic poetry of form power to think primordial atom radicalism reach reality realm relations respect rhythm Rig-Veda Roman Catholic say unto scientific spiritualism seed-germ sense of spiritual sorrow soul Souls to souls spir spiritual fervor spiritual sense spiritual things stand star-dust stars striving summons superior suppose sweet tell tendency thee thinker tion to-day touch true truth uncon unconscious universe unseen vision whence wonder word worship که که که
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Page 23 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought ; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits clad in veils ; Man by man was never seen ; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Heart to heart was never known ; Mind with mind did never meet ; We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart, though seeming near, In our light we scattered lie ; All is thus but starlight here.
Page 113 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 46 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 80 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 34 - No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. I plough no more a desert land, To harvest weed and tare; The manna dropping from God's hand Rebukes my painful care. I break my pilgrim staff, — I lay Aside the toiling oar; The angel sought so far away I welcome at my door.
Page 35 - That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm.
Page 94 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 3 - ... immortal. Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving; We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, But when the spirit beckons, — That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When we are simply...
Page 23 - What unto themselves was taught, We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen: All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen, Heart to heart was never known ; Mind with mind did never meet : We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete, Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart though seeming near, In our light we scattered lie ; All is thus but starlight here, What...
Page 47 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.