And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir... Language Lessons: Part one-[two] - Page 129by Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896Full view - About this book
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, • And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life...it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; 2. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; 2. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
| 1867 - 554 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And grasping blindty above it for light. Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.' Or turn the page to the... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well... | |
| Buffalo (N.Y.). Forest Lawn Cemetery - 1867 - 188 pages
...seemingly devoid of life, as \ soon as the sun penetrates the hidden germs of / being it contains, " Feels a stir of might, An instinct within it, that...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." And is the re-animation of our mortal dust— the heavenward flight of the soul, a change any more... | |
| 1867 - 616 pages
...It be In tune, And over It softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We heir life murmur, or see It glisten. Every clod feels a...Instinct within It that reaches and towers — And. grasping blindly abore it for light. Climbs to a soul In grass and flowers.* Our English critic also... | |
| 1867 - 548 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...see it glisten : Every clod feels a stir of might, AQ instinct within it that reaches and towers, And grasping blindly above it for light. Climbs to a... | |
| Robert Collyer - 1867 - 334 pages
...spirits that stand nearest the immanent glory ; and, on the other, that mystery of life in which — " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, feeling blindly toward the light, Climhs to a soul in grass and flowers." And I have made this brief... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or sec it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And,... | |
| Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life mufmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; 2. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
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