 Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 151by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...days hold thee free: The day that was und is to be. »it. OMAB KHAYYAM — Bodenstedt, Translator. A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab...becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. ?i. LONGFELLOW — Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass. Art is long and Time is fleeting, o. LONUFELLOW... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1882 - 392 pages
...Marblehead, Mass. Desert in an Hour-Glass." Observe the clear aphoristic lines of the first stanza : — " A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab...becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought." This poem is very striking throughout, but there is no way to condense it, or do more than quote this... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1882 - 376 pages
...like the song-birds in the forest he loved to hear. He tells us of the hour-glass on his desk, — ' A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab...becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.' While the sand shall run or flow may the verses last, — clean as the drift on the shore, pure as... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1882 - 398 pages
...Marblehead, Mass. Desert in an Hour-Glass." Observe the clear aphoristic lines of the first stanza : — " A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab...becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought." This poem is very striking throughout, but there is no way to condense it, or do more than quote this... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 698 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. 429 SON N ET. ON MRS KEMDLB'S READINGS FROM SHAESPCARK. O PRECIOUS evenings ! all too swiftly sped... | |
 | Five minutes daily readings - 1882 - 408 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. 13. CONTENT. THERE is a. jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit... | |
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XLI. ON OUTLETS. 1. DURING a year of bad harvests, business was at a standstill, and workpeople... | |
 | Charles Neil - 1882 - 1052 pages
...beheld Christian truth in focus, or, to vary the illustration, as i spectator views the landscape from " Turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky." The other failed to grasp Christian principles in their right and relative positions : in fact, beheld... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...strong and sure . With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...Thought. How many weary centuries has it been About these deserts blown ! How many strange vicissitudes has seen, How many histories known ! Perhaps the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...strong and sure ; With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...Thought. How many weary centuries has it been About these deserts blown ! How many strange vicissitudes has seen, How many histories known ! Perhaps the... | |
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