 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 446 pages
...perfect days : Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: ' Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 436 pages
...come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm cur lavs: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to n soul in grass and flowers; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in... | |
 | Robert Morris Copeland - Agriculture - 1860 - 878 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly, her warm ear lays ; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...feels a stir of might, An instinct within it, that readies and towers, And, grasping blindly ahove it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether wo listen, We hear Hie murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may... | |
 | Music - 1862 - 432 pages
...he in tune, And over it softly her warm car lays : Whether we look, or whether, we listen, We henr life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels...light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may well "bo seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...perfect days ; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...flowers ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...come perfect days, Then Heaven tries the Earth if it he in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within that reaches and towers, And grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers."... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life...see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life .may well be seen An instinct within it that... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; 6* Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping... | |
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels... 
