 | 1891 - 636 pages
...constitutes his glory. His reward is as much richer than gold as faith is better than cash. " 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, but the high faith that failed not by the way." Of the rich doctor one entertains just suspicion, even if he have great professional skill and honorable... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 560 pages
...unforgiving ; I with uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! T is not the grapes of C'anaan that repay, But the high iaith that failed not by the way ; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave ; No bar of endless... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 206 pages
...I with uncovered head / Salute the sacred dead, , \ Who went, and who return not. — Say not so I T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No bar of endless night exiles the brave ; And to the... | |
 | Katharine Paine Sutton - 1892 - 256 pages
...no death. I WITH uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. Say not so ! 'T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave ; No bar of endless night exiles the brave ; And to... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 584 pages
...It is the giver, not receiver, that in the struggles of humanity upward gets the greater blessing. " Not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not on the way." What was the most precious outcome of the antislavery struggle and our civil war? Not... | |
 | Elizabeth Boynton Harbert - 1892 - 312 pages
...service. I chanced to mark in my birthday book, this very morning, that sentence of Lowell : ' 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that fails not by the way.' ' " Yes, I know that sounds very beautiful ; but the awful trouble is, Theodora,... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1893 - 670 pages
...should be words. Lowell in his great ' Ode ' seems to look on the question from the soldier side : — ' 'T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind.' Now that does not strike what... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 574 pages
...unforgiving ; J with uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave ; Ко ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1895 - 372 pages
...I with uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who returned not. — Say not so I 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave ; No bar of endless night exiles the brave ; And to... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...unforgiving; I with uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to the... | |
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T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind. 
