 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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...it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; 2. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or sec it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An...light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...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...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 well... | |
 | 1867 - 554 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 blindty above it for light. Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.' Or turn the page to the... | |
 | Buffalo (N.Y.). Forest Lawn Cemetery - 1867 - 188 pages
...seemingly devoid of life, as \ soon as the sun penetrates the hidden germs of / being it contains, " Feels a stir of might, An instinct within it, that...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." And is the re-animation of our mortal dust— the heavenward flight of the soul, a change any more... | |
 | 1867 - 548 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, AQ instinct within it that reaches and towers, And grasping blindly above it for light. Climbs to a... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...It be In tune, And over It softly her warm ear lays. Whether we look, or whether we listen, We heir life murmur, or see It glisten. Every clod feels a...Instinct within It that reaches and towers — And. grasping blindly abore it for light. Climbs to a soul In grass and flowers.* Our English critic also... | |
 | Robert Collyer - Sermons, American - 1867 - 334 pages
...spirits that stand nearest the immanent glory ; and, on the other, that mystery of life in which — " Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, feeling blindly toward the light, Climhs to a soul in grass and flowers." And I have made this brief... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life mufmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might,...for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; 2. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles... | |
 | Lyndon - 1868 - 368 pages
...and bleak winds of March. Sooner or later it is almost sure to feel ' a stir of might, A something within it that reaches and towers; And, groping blindly...it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers *— " I think it is always March for some poor clods," answer ed Philip. " And yet,' June may be had... | |
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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... 
