A Year of Miracle: A Poem in Four SermonsGeo. H. Ellis, 1881 - 106 páginas |
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... forms ! The ways of the air are filled with the army of the Snow ! Their tread is not with sound , but second by second they arrive , and alight , and possess themselves of the hills and the hollows . The fields grow silent and white ...
... forms ! The ways of the air are filled with the army of the Snow ! Their tread is not with sound , but second by second they arrive , and alight , and possess themselves of the hills and the hollows . The fields grow silent and white ...
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... some of the strag- glers , and examine them . That crystal panoply is our first " treasure . " The captives are by no means clad alike , however . Upwards of a thou- sand differing forms of snow - flakes have been ob- 16 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
... some of the strag- glers , and examine them . That crystal panoply is our first " treasure . " The captives are by no means clad alike , however . Upwards of a thou- sand differing forms of snow - flakes have been ob- 16 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
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... forms ; but verily , as with the stars above , one differ- eth from another in its glory . The simplest is this wherein six prisms radiate from a centre , like wheel - spokes from a hub . Then , on both spokes and hub Nature sets to ...
... forms ; but verily , as with the stars above , one differ- eth from another in its glory . The simplest is this wherein six prisms radiate from a centre , like wheel - spokes from a hub . Then , on both spokes and hub Nature sets to ...
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... form seems different from all the rest : it is a star set at each end of a prism like the two wheels on an axle - tree ... forms , and this variety in their daintiness , are not the only treasures of the snow - flake . Through all that ...
... form seems different from all the rest : it is a star set at each end of a prism like the two wheels on an axle - tree ... forms , and this variety in their daintiness , are not the only treasures of the snow - flake . Through all that ...
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... in unceas- ing motion . And when we say , " the thermom- eter falls , " what we mean , in brief , is this : the water - atoms , while the water is in the form of vapor , move loosely , freely , distantly ; 20 20 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
... in unceas- ing motion . And when we say , " the thermom- eter falls , " what we mean , in brief , is this : the water - atoms , while the water is in the form of vapor , move loosely , freely , distantly ; 20 20 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
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Arabs atoms beauty become birds birth blossoms carbonic acid cells chemic force color comes common death deep drop dying earth echo Egypt eternal everywhere eyes feel ferneries fields flakes flowers friends fruit Galilee garden-men gather glacier glory God's grass Greece green grow guess hand harvest HARVEST-SECRET hear heart heat heaven Hebrew human hundred hydrogen immortality inch infinitely Jesus land leaf leaves lilies live Lord man's minerals miracle mystery Nature never night organized oxygen Persia petals pistil plant poet Praise prisms pyramids quiet rain ravelled Resurrection ripened rising rose seasons secret seed snow snow-flake solid spring stamen stand stars storm summer tell Thanksgiving Day Theodore Parker things thought tiny tion to-day transfiguration treasures tree turn twig vanished vapor watch whence wild-flower wind winter wonder word worship YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 71 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 30 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 68 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
Página 78 - And quickens into new, As brightening down the ages God's secret thrilleth through. O Toiler of the lily, Thy touch is in the Man ! No leaf that dawns to petal But hints the angel-plan. The flower-horizons open ! The blossom vaster shows ! We hear Thy wide worlds echo, — See how the lily grows.
Página 49 - I have something to tell you — there are two Theodore Parkers now. One is dying here in Italy, the other I have planted in America. 'He will live there, and finish my work.
Página 103 - Society, etc. New and Enlarged Edition. 8vo. Cloth. $2.00. ECCE SPIRITUS. I2mo. . Cloth. $1.25. A STUDY OF THE PENTATEUCH. By RUFUS P.
Página 102 - I am not eager, bold, Nor strong, — all that is past ; I am ready not to do At last, at last. My half-day's work is done, And this is all my part, — I give a patient God, My patient heart; And grasp His banner still, Though all its blue be dim ; These stripes, no less than stars, Lead after Him.
Página 24 - Probably few here present were aware of the beauty latent in a block of common ice. And only think of lavish Nature operating thus throughout the world. Every atom of the solid ice which sheets the frozen lakes of the North has been fixed according to this law. Nature Hays her beams in music,' and it is the function of science to purify our organs, so as to enable us to hear the strain.
Página 80 - What secret power, I wonder, caused this blossoming miracle? What mysterious force guided the seedling from the dark earth up to the light, through leaf and stem and bud, to glorious fulfilment in the perfect flower? Who could have dreamed that such beauty lurked in the dark earth, was latent in the tiny seed we planted? Beautiful flower, you have taught me to see a little way into the hidden heart of things. Now I understand that the darkness everywhere may hold possibilities better than even my...
Página 103 - MAN'S ORIGIN AND DESTINY. Sketched from the Platform of the Physical Sciences.