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" Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 151
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 546 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...exactly of this charactar. This is how he moralizes over some Sand of the Desert in an Hour-glass: — " How many weary centuries has it been About those deserts blown ! How many stranpje vicissitudes has seen, How many histories known ! " Perhaps the camels of the Ishmaclite Trampled...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this class becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. How manv wearv centuries has it been About...
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A Gift for the Holidays

Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. YOUNO thoughts have music in them : — love And happiness their theme. I HAVE seen change...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XXXIII. THE LABOURER. " IT is an encouraging circumstance that the respect for labour is...
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The Rhode Island Educational Magazine, Volume 1

Elisha Reynolds Potter - Education - 1852 - 406 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain, To those turrets where the...as one vast plain And one boundless reach of sky. LESSOiNS ON OBJECTS. The following letter from Professor Jaeger, whose lectures on Natural History...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,...
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A Sequel to the Gradual Reader

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief....
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. iarte in The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its valleys green Snatched...
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A Sequel to the Gradual Reader

David Bates Tower - Readers - 1853 - 272 pages
...firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can \ve attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS. 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief....
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The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir

Gift books - 1854 - 342 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets where the eye Sees the earth as one vast plain, And ("a' boundless reach of sky. " O, I WILL BUY THY FLOWERS." ET MABT 8....
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