 CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends.  Essays in Astronomy - Page 921900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 264 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII. CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 348 pages
...time-intervals, but the series has no limit that we know of, while it possesses terms, recognisable by us, of higher order than those we have been dealing with....which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, — ./Koiiiiui. music measuring out The steps of time. Taking as the extremest span of the past existence... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 pages
...whether the long periods which we have contemplated may not be matched and more than matched by the aaons which preceded them. When we thus Contemplate all...is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world,— Ionian music measuring out The steps of time. Taking as the extremest span of the past existence of... | |
 | William Henry Lyttelton - 1876 - 168 pages
...which follow from this doctrine. III PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION. " Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...every span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIIt. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. cxvin. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. cxvni. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the... | |
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