14. William Penn, 1644. Well, is the thing we see salvation? I Put no such dreadful question to myself, Within whose circle of experience burns The central truth, Power, Wisdom, Goodness, – God; I must outlive a thing ere know it dead ; 15. Allan Ramsay, 1686. Some think, Creation 's meant to show Him forth; I say it's meant to hide Him all it can, And that's what all the blessed evil's for. Its use in Time is to environ us Our breath, our drop of dew, with shield enough Against that sight till we can bear its stress. I BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY. 16. Noah Webster, 1758. say, such love is never blind; but rather Alive to every the minutest spot Which mars its object, and which hate (supposed So vigilant and searching) dreams not of. PARACELSUS. 10. Benjamin West, 1738. Who trusts To human testimony for a fact Gets this sole fact himself is proved a fool; And, since truth seems reserved for heaven not earth, Should learn to love what he may speak one day. THE RING AND THE BOOK. 11. Samuel G. Drake, 1798. Grant me (once again) assurance we shall each meet each some day, Walk- - but with how bold a footstep! on a way · but what a way! Worst were best, defeat were triumph, utter loss were utmost gain. Can it be, and must, and will it ? 12. Hugh Miller, 1802. LA SAISIAZ. Feel how my life broke off from thine, IN THREE DAYS. 13. Battle of Hastings, 1066. All 's right with the world! PIPPA PASSES. 14. William Penn, 1644. Well, is the thing we see salvation? I Put no such dreadful question to myself, Within whose circle of experience burns The central truth, Power, Wisdom, Goodness, – God; - I must outlive a thing ere know it dead ; 15. Allan Ramsay, 1686. Some think, Creation 's meant to show Him forth; say it's meant to hide Him all it can, I And that's what all the blessed evil's for. Its use in Time is to environ us Our breath, our drop of dew, with shield enough Against that sight till we can bear its stress. I BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY. 16. Noah Webster, 1758. say, such love is never blind; but rather Alive to every the minutest spot Which mars its object, and which hate (supposed So vigilant and searching) dreams not of. PARACELSUS. 17. Sir Philip Sidney died, 1586. I know my own appointed patch i' the world, Are pleased or pained, is past conjecture, once I To practise with, — reach where the fact may lie Fathom-deep lower. FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. 18. Thomas Love Peacock, 1785. All my days, I'll go the softlier, sadlier, For that dream's sake! How forget the thrill Through and through me as I thought "The glad Lives lier my friend because I love him still!" FEARS AND SCRUPLES. 19. Leigh Hunt, 1784. This self-possession to the uttermost, THE RING AND THE BOOK. 20. Thomas Hughes, 1823. Here, blindfold through the maze of things we walk By a slight thread of false, true, right and wrong. KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES. 21. Alphonse de Lamartine, 1792. That low man goes on adding one to one, This high man aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL. 22. Henry Richard, Lord Holland, died, 1840. Man's mind. what is it but a convex glass Wherein are gathered all the scattered points To reunite there, be our heaven on earth, Our known unknown, our God revealed to man? THE RING AND THE BOOK. 23. Francis Jeffrey, 1773. He looked at her as a lover can; THE STATUE AND THE BUST. |