 O me! for why is all around us here As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would. Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful?  The Living Age - Page 5611893Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 750 pages
...acritas " (Lucius Attius preserved in Nonius Marcellus, 493, 14). The REV. E. С. Е. OWEN'S quotation, As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would. is from Tennyson's ' The Passing of Arthur,' 11. 14, 15. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. " Equal to either fate,"... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I found Him not, I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here, As if some lesser god had made the world And had not force to shape it as he would Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 340 pages
...flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. • I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful 1 Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have... | |
 | Harriet Waters Preston - Provençal poetry - 1876 - 298 pages
...His fields, But in His ways with men I find him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. Oh, me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter in and make it beautiful ? Or else, as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...His fields, But in His ways with men I rind Him not. I waged His wars, and now l pass and die. O niel for why is all around us here, As if some lesser god...had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High tiod behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful? For I, being simple, thought to work... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 1050 pages
...appropriate uses of the subjunctive. I quote, however, a few others as further illustrations : — " As if some lesser god had made the world. But had...it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair." — The Passing of Arthur, II. 14-18. " Sir King, I closed... | |
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