 | 1889 - 434 pages
...unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers , why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? "Winter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heart. Then I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilies, the violets,... | |
 | 1891 - 444 pages
...the sky. The sunshine in on my head. Winter is oh my head and eternal Spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and roses as at twenty years ago. The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal... | |
 | 1876 - 404 pages
...unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing^but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1880 - 156 pages
...heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul more luminous...bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head, and eternal spring is in my heart. There I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the... | |
 | Edwin Dwight Babbitt - 1881 - 394 pages
...unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail?...is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. There, I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and the roses, as at twenty... | |
 | S. G. Lathrop - 1881 - 422 pages
...say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminious when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head, and eternal Spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets,... | |
 | William Cochrane - 1886 - 568 pages
...say the soul is nothing bu* the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more 'uminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head, and eternal spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilies, the violets,... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1888 - 232 pages
...unknown worlds. " You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heartThen I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets,... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1888 - 562 pages
...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. "Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter is on my head, and eternal Spring is in my heart. Then I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets,... | |
 | 1901 - 736 pages
...which with old-time sweetness and the confidence born of unfaltering faith exclaims, with Victor Hugo: "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart! I am rising, I know, toward the sky. Heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds." Such is... | |
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I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. 
