 So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...  Complete Works - Page 230by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | James Francis Cobb - 1883 - 470 pages
...JAMES F. COBB, FRGS AUTHOK OF 'THE WATCHERS ON THE LONGSHIPS,' 'SILENT JIM,' ETC. ' So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers loud, "Thou must !" The youth replies, " I can." • EMERSON. LONDON: CONTENTS. CHAP. PAOE I. TWO LADS... | |
 | 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...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 new, Utterly... | |
 | 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...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. RW EMERSON. that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order, has... | |
 | 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...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 of... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1884 - 90 pages
...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterwards said: " I love inexpressibly these streets of Boston,... | |
 | Johanne Lohse - 1884 - 152 pages
...hearts that a thing being difficult or irksome or disagreeable is no reason whatever for not doing it. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can* VIII. ' ' Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1884 - 44 pages
...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly these streets of... | |
 | 1884 - 506 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, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1884 - 44 pages
...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly these streets of... | |
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