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" The path of duty was the way to glory; He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.... "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 336
1885
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The Maine Normal: Devoted to the Family and the School, Volume 2

1868 - 504 pages
...All-Father, will move straight onward and upward, remembering, that "Not once nor twice in our proud nation's story The path of duty was the way to glory. He that treads it, only thirsting for the right, And learns to deaden love of self, Before his journey closes,...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 186 pages
...not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. .Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...Love of self, before his journey closes. He shall fiiid the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses....
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The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places ...

Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - 1869 - 478 pages
...serves the State. Not once, or twice, ere our own country's story, The path of duty was the path of glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right,...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purple, which out-redden All voluptuous golden roses." CHAPTER II. TIIE PURPORT...
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The path on earth to the gate of heaven, essays

Frederick Arnold - 1869 - 412 pages
...are, indeed, enabled to discern that this path of duty has its own peculiar glory : " He that walks iu it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden...self, before his journey closes He shall find the stuhhorn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. He that,...
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The Young Ladies' Treasure Book: A Complete Cyclopædia of Practical ...

1870 - 956 pages
...assurances to the contrary, there is no royal road to learning — that path is rough and thorny ; but — " He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before the journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden...
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The Poetical Works

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...cares not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough islandstory, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden -roses. Not once or twice in our...
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Miscellanies

John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 pages
...heroes of war or civil fight, thosethrilling words of the Laureate — " Not once or twice in our fair island story The path of duty was the way to glory; He that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Through the long gorge to the...
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Jessie Grey; Or, The Discipline of Life: A Canadian Tale

G. L. - 1871 - 138 pages
...for the flowers, Will much more care for him" CHAPTER IV. " Not once or twice in our young nation's story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, — Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...cares not to be great But as he saves or serves the State. Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory. He that walks...journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our...
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The works of Alfred Tennyson, Volume 3

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 304 pages
...not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our...
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