 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1861 - 368 pages
...this most gifted brother and sister were often clouded, yet gleams of sunshine irradiated the gloom. " But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? " * " To most men experience is like the stern-lights... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORI AM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXITI. I. 1 BELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief, lest both be drowned. Let... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 616 pages
...of God." Let me not, however, appear to underrate the sorrows of the early Nonconformists. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...And find in loss a gain to match? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears? " Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drowned, Let... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 232 pages
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of then- dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 568 pages
...increasing purpose runs," &c. •om Tennyson's Locksley Hall. " I held it truth with him who sings FTo one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." I would refer K. to a poem of Longfellow's, Qtitled The Ladder of St. Augustine, where he rill find... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 608 pages
...increasing purpose]runs," &c. from Tennyson's Locksley Hall. " I held It truth with him who sings1 To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead Belves to higher things." I would refer K. to a poem of Longfellow's, entitled The Ladder of St. Augustine,... | |
 | John McLeod Campbell - Faith - 1862 - 226 pages
...them, and even past loss is turned to gain : and so through the grace of God it becomes true — " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." " Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap;"1 yet — "if Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOKIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXin. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...But who shall so forecast the years, . And find in losa a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears? Let Love... | |
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pages
...flattering to one's self-complacency. We may even echo the sentiment of Tennyson and sav : — " I hold it truth with him who sings, To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." And yet it is not pleasant to gaze upon the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...the Laureate's " In Memoriam." In this stanza, two rhyming verses come between other two ; eg : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stonea Of their dead selves to higher things. •' But who shall so forecast the years And... | |
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I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on steppingstones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
