 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...moment after they were written, seemed as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." 16 " Saadi " was published in the " Atlantic Monthly" in 1864, "My Garden" in 1866, " Terminus... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 402 pages
...to him that believeth. — MARK ix. 23. Nothing shall be impossible unto you. — MATT. icvii. 20. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. RW EMERSON. that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order,... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1884 - 328 pages
...from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, " Thou must.' The youth replies, " I can." 5. A wonderful thing is a seed ; The one thing deathless forever — Forever old and forever... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...I. This paragraph suggests Guy, the " mortal mixed of middle clay," in the Poems. Page 38, note I. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. " Voluntaries," Poems. Page 39, note I. And through man and woman and sea and star Saw the dance... | |
 | Henry George Spaulding - 1884 - 294 pages
...INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES. E of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, All that hope in the Lord. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must 1 The youth replies, I can ! Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. II. HYMN.... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...it is Gray and his age. Now listen to Emerson, who " was not of an age, but for all time." THE ODE. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Tlwu must, The youth replies, lean. Oh, well for the fortunate soul "Which music's wings infold, Stealing... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages :— " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 80 near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply... | |
 | 1885 - 590 pages
..."Usoge» worn out The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out," let Emerson speak : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, ' Thou must !' The youth replies, ' I can !' " Yours truly, GRADUATE. THE ADC PERFORMANCES. To the Editors of the Cambridge Review. SIRS,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...accustomed us to them. Let me have the pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 pages
...to repudiate that doctrine. I give you a finer and a nobler motto — So nigh is glory to our duty, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low "Thou must," The soul replies, "I can." And if I am to speak to you about duties, I will mention one which is too often... | |
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can... 
