 | Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 626 pages
...find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden roses. He, that ever following her commands, On with toil...toppling crags of duty scaled Are close upon the shining table lands, To which our God Himself is moon and sun."* * Soon after General Rodman's death, General... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 632 pages
...find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, whioh outredden All voluptuous garden roses. He, that ever following her commands, On with toil...toppling crags of duty scaled Are close upon the shining table lands, To which our God Himself is moon and sun."* • Soon after General Rodman's death, General... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1867 - 516 pages
...COMMANDS, ON WITH TOIL OF HEART AND KNEES AND HANDS, THROUGH THE LONG GORGE TO THE FAR LIGHT HAS won HlS PATH UPWARD AND PREVAILED, SHALL FIND THE TOPPLING...TABLE-LANDS To WHICH OUR GOD HIMSELF IS MoON AND SUN. Tennyson. LIVES or INDIAN OFFICERS. LORD CORNWALLIS. [BORN 1738.— DIED 1805.] NOT of men of large... | |
 | 1867 - 622 pages
...and knees and hands, Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won His path upward, and prevail'd, Shall find the toppling crags of duty scaled Are close...table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun." By steady work you will find the sting removed from the primeval curse of labour, and, step by step... | |
 | 1867 - 416 pages
...counting obedience to His will, even though it involve toil and sacrifice, our chief obligations, we — " Shall find, the toppling crags of duty scaled, Are...table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun." Obedience to Christ's command is rendered dear to us by gratitude. He who speaks has redeemed us from... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 pages
...and knees and hands, Thro' th? long gorge to the far light has won His path upward, and prevail'd, Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close...table-lands, To which our God Himself is moon and sun." This, it will be conceded, is scarcely the sort of poetry that is "made to order," or that is likely... | |
 | 1868 - 504 pages
...Not once nor twice in our proud nation's story, £", The path of duty was the way to glory. He who with toil of heart and knees and hands, Through the...table-lands, To which our God himself is Moon and Sun." Teachers and citixens, I thank you for the kind attention which you have accorded to me to-night. For... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...and knees and hands, Thro' the long gorge to the far light, has won His path upward, and prevail'd, Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close...table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun.*' Truth, duty, rectitude — these are vague words. What is truth ? Its seekers are all in disagreement... | |
 | Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...; " but he who pursues it, still pressing on " through the long gorge " and winning his way upward, Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are...table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun. Nevertheless, if his life is to be full and complete, he must be able to pluck whatever bright flowers... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 444 pages
...of blue air. So is it in the moral world. He who ever toils uphillward with his eye upon the summit, "Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are...table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun." But is this a promise for the future only ? Is it only the peaceful, the happy, the victorious dead,... | |
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The path of duty was the way to glory: He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro... 
