A Year of Miracle: A Poem in Four SermonsGeo. H. Ellis, 1881 - 106 páginas |
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... grass - blade , the dust - mote , the snow- flake : hast thou entered into their treasures ? I make my worlds out of them ! " To - day , again , the question lies written on the ground in our fresh snow - fall . We will accept its ...
... grass - blade , the dust - mote , the snow- flake : hast thou entered into their treasures ? I make my worlds out of them ! " To - day , again , the question lies written on the ground in our fresh snow - fall . We will accept its ...
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... grass and trees ; and Nature knows the sign and begins to unrobe her for the sleep . Her colors , dropping back from green through yel- low , orange , and the reds , fade at last to browns and russets ; and then she rustles into naked ...
... grass and trees ; and Nature knows the sign and begins to unrobe her for the sleep . Her colors , dropping back from green through yel- low , orange , and the reds , fade at last to browns and russets ; and then she rustles into naked ...
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... grass - blade , and whiten into frost , is as if one standing on a mountain - top were watching the muster of a mighty army in the dim lands far below . Even if this atomic theory were known to be certain fact , instead of being merely ...
... grass - blade , and whiten into frost , is as if one standing on a mountain - top were watching the muster of a mighty army in the dim lands far below . Even if this atomic theory were known to be certain fact , instead of being merely ...
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... watched it as a boy on the hills of Galilee . Doubtless he used to go out to gather early lilies and note the green garments of the fresh young grass . Ten million million tiny strug- glers on our hills and in our fields to - RESURRECTION.
... watched it as a boy on the hills of Galilee . Doubtless he used to go out to gather early lilies and note the green garments of the fresh young grass . Ten million million tiny strug- glers on our hills and in our fields to - RESURRECTION.
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... grass , no green ; the water of the river had shrunken to little lakes , a mile or two long , lying scattered here and there along the dry bed . And these pools swarmed and throbbed with the concen- trated life of the big river ; the ...
... grass , no green ; the water of the river had shrunken to little lakes , a mile or two long , lying scattered here and there along the dry bed . And these pools swarmed and throbbed with the concen- trated life of the big river ; the ...
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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.