 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, In scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - Homeopathy - 1894 - 1362 pages
...noble monument to a noble man. We are sure the following words must have found echo in his nature. " Oh may I join the Choir invisible, Of those immortal...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime, that pierce the night like star?, And with... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...In this volume the religious aspirations of the new faith were thus given poetical expression : " O may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal...like stars, And, with their mild persistence, urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live u Aeoten." In this year, too, at Belfast, Professor Tyndall... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...higher volition and action, With the girdle of God, Go and encompass the earth. Arthur Hugh Ckiug/i. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...live again In minds made better by their presence! May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cnp of strength in soiuo great agony, Enkindle... | |
 | George Eliot - English poetry - 1874 - 274 pages
...INVISIBLE." illud tempui, t/v.um rum era, magii me movel, I/HUM hoc eziguum. — CICERO, ad Att., xii. 18. 0 MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live ia heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | George Eliot - English poetry - 1874 - 268 pages
...Longum illud tempm, quum non era, magis me movel, quam hoc ezu/uum. — CICERO, ad Alt., xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...reality, Our suffering life the dream. MR8. LEWE8 (GEORGE ELIOT). O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0 MAY I Join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...generosity. In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | 1876 - 982 pages
...laughing. In the mean time the Governor was quoting to Iris George Eliot's grand Positivist hymn: " ' О may I join the choir Invisible Of those immortal dead...In pulses stirred to generosity. In deeds of daring rectitnde, In scorn For miserable aims that end with self. This is the life to come. Which martyred... | |
 | Richard Travers Smith - Apologetics - 1876 - 256 pages
...found of a hope beyond the grave into which the expectation of personal immortality does not enter. " 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirr'd to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self.... | |
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O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that... 
