True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,... The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 152by Walter Scott - 1807 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. St. I. True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Canto v. St. 13. Breathes there... | |
| Martha Careful (pseud.) - 1875 - 234 pages
...brightens as the home refuge once more appears in eight and brings assurance of relief ! " True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." SCOTT. The last touch of human... | |
| Spectre - Gambling - 1875 - 346 pages
...art — everywhere ! For Thou and we are — ONE !' CHAPTER VI. ' True love'a the gift which God haa given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not fantasy's...the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.' — SCOTT. I WOULD tell you, sir,... | |
| Robert Tyas - Flowers - 1875 - 258 pages
...its fragrance delightful, reminding us, as if in the words of Sir Walter Scott, that " True love "s the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. * • * • * * It is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that love so well. ounds to go. In heaps the throttled victims fall ;...starts, new nerved by fear. With blood besmcar'd, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.— Now leave we Margaret and... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...the hope of ill to follow, But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. In the morning bugles blew for... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...world of spirits lies A gloom from which ye turn your eyes. — Bryant. 2326. LOVE : a Divine gift. )0 Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.— Scott. 2327. LOVE : cannot... | |
| Robert Balgarnie - 1877 - 394 pages
...resumed work, and the point in dispute was, very soon afterwards, satisfactorily settled. CHAPTER V. " True love's the gift which God has given To man alone...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." — SCOTT. THE FIRM OF " DANIEL... | |
| Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...other pаssious fly, All others are but vanity. — SOCTHEY, ТЫ Gurte of Kehama. — True LOVK's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wi*hes, soon as granted, fly ; • It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1877 - 592 pages
...was the lady to whom Walter was likely soon to be " engaged." CHAPTER XXXV. FAVOURABLE SYMPTOMS. " True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body... | |
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