 | 1882 - 450 pages
...we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions...pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...But we have feet to scale or climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the sides, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...feats or facts are accomplished. As Longfollow so happily says, in his " Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — • The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 308 pages
...it. We see the glory that is entered, but we are ignorant of the toils which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 pages
...it. We see the glory that is entered, but we are ignorant of the toils which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
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We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but... 
