 | 1882 - 450 pages
...we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions...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 assures... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...crossed by 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...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to brighter destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast As wholly... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight, But they, while their companions...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past, As... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by j*reat men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past, As... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
| |
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. 
