 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...LETTERS. OK bravely through the sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we have oursSo nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man ; When Duty whispers low ' Thou must/ The youth replies, ' I can.' THE MAN OF LETTERS. AH ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...force are rare in his poetry. They exist, of course ; but when we meet with them they give us a sense of surprise, so little has Emerson accustomed us to...So 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... | |
 | 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 man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly... | |
 | 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 man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly... | |
 | 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 man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." 16 " Saadi " was published in the " Atlantic Monthly" in 1864, "My... | |
 | 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 man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must.' The youth replies, " I can." 5. A wonderful thing is a seed ; The one thing deathless forever... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterwards said: " I love inexpressibly... | |
 | 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 man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. RW EMERSON. that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting... | |
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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... 
