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...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher...

...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, -tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation resc forme, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd...

...trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say Tho solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man — Who throve...

..."Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from ' ' In Memoriam : " — "They say, The sordid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man, Who throve...

...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, And seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime...

...Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid tartli whereon we tread [n tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher...

...But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread in tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to The herald of a higher race,...

...those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say. The solid eartli whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And...seeming-random forms. The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Wlio throve and branch'd from dims to clime, The herald of a higher...

...Before Darwin published his now famous work on " The Origin of Species," an English poet wrote : — " The solid earth whereon we tread " In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey to cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; " and this...