| Christian life - 1882 - 450 pages
...by pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
| American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way, Who far into the night... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
| Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...open to that objection." GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 316 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 308 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed... | |
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