Texas School Journal, Volume 15Texas Educational Journal Publishing Company, 1897 |
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Page 351 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its likeness, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power, Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity confirms the conception of an hour. —Browning.
Page 116 - Nothing useless is, or low; Each tiling in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen: Make the house where gods may dwell— Beautiful entire, and clean.
Page 385 - WHEN i HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER. When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired
Page 351 - each for the joy of the working, and each in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are. —Rudyard Kipling.
Page 93 - What has been done by the government of the United States regarding this controversy during the last eight months? (c) What right had the United States to interfere? 7. What is meant by the "free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1?" 8. What is the cause and nature of the recent trouble in Armenia?
Page 323 - Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing. He lives to learn in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and
Page 347 - mystic ocean, Whose rim no foot hath trod: Some of us call it longing, And others call it God. A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood; Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions — who, humble and nameless— The straight, hard path have trod: Some call it consecration, And others call it God.
Page 393 - mystic ocean. Whose rim no foot hath trod: Some of us call it longing, And others call it God. " A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood; Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And
Page 260 - earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, The more we feel the high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty; Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely, and unwasted days.
Page 393 - Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior. (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains,