...Xot from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time." * * * * * » "Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." This was the office of Longfellow in literature, and how perfectly it was fulfilled ! It was not a...

...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. ***** ' Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer.' Her cheeks grew flushed, and she remained very still, and plucked with her fingers the petals from...

...that cometh in by singing of Psalms with grace in our hearts. — John Trupp. Verse M.— "Songs.'11 " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. " And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents...

...give, As I live, If by such songs you would earn it! ij. LONGFELLOW — The Kaga of King Olaf. St. 3. hough 1 stand here. e. Merry wives of Windsor. Act h. LONGFELLOW — The Day is Done. The song on its mighty pinions Took every living soul, and lifted...

...masters, Not from the bards sublime, AS'hose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time." ****** "Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." This was the office of Longfellow in literature, and how perfectly it was fulfilled ! It was not a...

...shone, its mighty Maker, and His lawful, well-deserved praise ? Night hath its songs. — SPURGEON. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer : And the night shall be filled with music, And the ills that infest the day Shall fold their tents...

...devoid of eosc. Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs liave power to quirt The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from tlir treasured vo'.ume The poem (if thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy...

...impregnable position as the laureate of women, children, and gentle folk, — his the desire and the power — 'To quiet The restless pulse of care And...come like the benediction That follows after prayer.' of children; destitute of vanity, and without envy, as without guile; independent, without being aggressive...

...siugfe line antagonistic to true religion. Of his poetry we may appropriately quote his own words, — " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care ; And come like the benediction, Which follows after prayer." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wasboraonFebroarv 27th, 1807, and it was permitted...

...heart, As showers from the clouds of Summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Such songs have powers to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer." Alas ! that the wizard hand of the poet is motionless, and already turning into dust; and that the...