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 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 230 pages
...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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 pages
...Memoriam," "Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Memoriam : " — " 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 258 pages
...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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 pages
...Memoriam," "Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Meinoriam : " — "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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 266 pages
...Memoriam," "Maud," and in others of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Memoriam : " — "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... | |
 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...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 branched from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
 | 1897 - 590 pages
...letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in " In Memoriam " he had written thus : 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 dime to clime The herald of a higher race,... | |
 | William Berryman Scott - 1897 - 622 pages
...higher plane and make it worthy of its opportunities and of the age-long preparation for its coming. "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... | |
 | 1897 - 588 pages
...letter from the present Master of Balliol to me. And in "In Memoriam " he had written thus : They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms. Till at (he last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime The herald of a higher... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1897 - 316 pages
...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 branched from clime to clime, The herald of a higher... | |
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