 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...  Lectures and Sermons - Page 148by William James Potter - 1895 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1880 - 146 pages
...with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? " BUuua White. OH 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... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...chanted the prayer (The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, by George Eliot, 2nd ed. 1874) : ' 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... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...do often lie too deep for tears. — Wordsworth: ''Intimations of Immortality." LXXXV. OH 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, - men's minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying inusie in the world, Breathing... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 836 pages
...the future as in the present. All too soon has her eloquent prayer been granted : — " 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... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - Buddhism - 1881 - 286 pages
...Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly "presented by George Eliot: " ' 0 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... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...im^t widely read of the century. She married, in iSSo, John Waiter Cross, of London. OH, may I join els everything ; And sends the fowls te us, in care, On ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...William Wordftcorth. Every aspiration after goodness is worship. Ecu. John Cunningham, DD Oh, 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... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 294 pages
...Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly " presented by George Eliot : " ' 0 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... | |
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