Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1858. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 147 CHAPTER XIV. "We give wreaths To the Olympian wrestling: we reward All who progress in this rough road of life; Shall not a watcher look on human pangs? On those great inner strifes, unseen but felt, Tabletted in the face ?--in the bowed form, In the hair wintered by the hands of grief!" Life's Episode. I Regarded the dame in silence. She seemed to guess my thought. "Mr. Brackenbury, I can guess that which is passing in your mind." "Which was, madam, how 'one touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.' Such 'thoughts that breathe and words that burn,' have been expressed silently, or openly, by all aspiring natures. If the voices of poetry may be again repeated, .1 would reply to your passage in the aspirations of a soul towards its Maker. 'Ineffable Being ! thou, supreme and sole: Thee I sought, thou wert the absorbing all, The craving impulse of this prescient life Towards the Inspirer; prophetic truth Found not in sophists' scrolls or vainer dreams. My page was Nature's living face turned on me! I read it in the light of setting suns, I saw it in the luminifrous air, Star-isled: I heard it from the prophet sounds Of the oracular Earth: I felt it cloven "Within my being, ineffaceably stamped Ere thought or memory grew. But oh, if these Still everlasting impulses in man Prove not that I am deathless ; if to err Be human, aspiration, but a want Deadened by life and time : if we no more Behold the loved, the loving, if the ties Of sympathies lie buried in the grave; If impulses I deemed inspired, the seeds Implanted in our hearts by. hope and faith, Those--holiest angels perish--yet let not The soul Thou gavest, shade-like pass away And be no more seen! Thou, Ineffable! Make me a spirit, a life sharing not Mutations of this nether sphere! Accord A bo...
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