 Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.  Popular Astronomy - Page 392edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...— " Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. " So when a great man dies,...he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men." His marble image stands in Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner ; but, better still, he lives in... | |
 | 1888 - 162 pages
...1888 Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,...light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. LONGFELLOW. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY 1 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. By MR. JOHN E. WARREN . 5 PRELIMINARY... | |
 | Samuel Crothers Logan - 1888 - 208 pages
...coming day, as well as the precious remembrance of the day that has closed and gone. " So, when a good man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men." ' Business men, and brothers ! gathered here today ; burdened with great schemes, and surrounded with... | |
 | Wilmington (Del.) Saint Andrew's Church-Vestry - 1888 - 268 pages
...would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. "So when a good man dies, For years, beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the path of men." He lived to witness the reconstruction of the government ; to see the sacred arch of... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1888 - 338 pages
...it is unnecessary to speak. He wrote not only to men of his own times and race, but to humanity. " The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men." EDWARD GILPIN JOHNSON. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LITERATURE FROM THE UNIVERSITIES.* The most noteworthy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 pages
...lives. Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,...light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. CADENABBIA. LAKE OF COMO. O sound of wheels or hoof-beat breaks The silence of the summer day, As by... | |
 | 1892 - 656 pages
...would its light Still travelling downward from the sky Shine on our mortal sight; " So when a good man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men." Judge Ashe was succeeded by Joseph J. Davis. John H. Dillard was born in Rockingham County, NC, Nov.... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1889 - 402 pages
...ages would its light, Still traveling downward from tl Shine on our mortal sight. " So, when a good man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the path of men.' "Hе was an earnest, zealous Mason, and a man possessed of fine qualities, a gentle and... | |
 | Amelia J. Calver - 1889 - 420 pages
...that has been in preparation for twenty years. Thus though his star is removed from our firmament, " The light he leaves behind him, lies Upon the paths of men." March 24. THOMAS GUSHING, an American patriot, born in Boston, Mass., March 24, 1725. Died February... | |
 | 1903 - 696 pages
...lives. Where a star quenched on high For Ages would its light Still travelling downward from the sky Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,...he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men." * * * THE IMPERATIVE DEMANDS OF THE AMERICAN FARMER. The Farmers' National Congress held at Niagara... | |
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