That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better, — saw within A worthier image for the sanctuary. And shaped it forth before the multitude, Divinely human, raising worship so To higher reverence... Religion and Morality - Page 159by Richard Travers Smith - 1876 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...parent shaming still Its child, [solved; Poor anxious penitence, is quick disIts discords quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song. That watched to ease the burden of the world. Laboriously tracing... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 224 pages
...parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 246 pages
...parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self. That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 268 pages
...parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...vicious parent shaming still its child, Poor unxious penitence, is qmck dissolved; Its discords quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - 1877 - 338 pages
...The gall of hazard, so they grow together, Will never sink."— JOHN FLETCHES. " Discords quenched by meeting harmonies Die in the large and charitable air ; And all our rarer, truer, better self — That better self— shall live."— GEORGE ELIOT. THEY seemed to themselves... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords quenched by meeting hannonies, xcalibur, And fling him far into the middle mere : Watch what t tinier self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world,... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved : Its discords, quenched like the plaine, I clime no hill ; In greatest stormes I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; It-s discords quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
| 1882 - 526 pages
...parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable...air ; And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing... | |
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