A Year of Miracle: A Poem in Four SermonsGeo. H. Ellis, 1881 - 106 páginas |
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... never will you find a fin- ished star with five rays or with seven , or with that law of the angles broken . The rays them- selves are broken , but never that creative law . Bruised , shattered , huddled together , the snow- flakes ...
... never will you find a fin- ished star with five rays or with seven , or with that law of the angles broken . The rays them- selves are broken , but never that creative law . Bruised , shattered , huddled together , the snow- flakes ...
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... never yet been seen ; they are merely guessed at to explain certain phenomena that are seen ; so that their size , or want of size , is rather problematical . But the calculators have tried their best . After dif- ferent methods of ...
... never yet been seen ; they are merely guessed at to explain certain phenomena that are seen ; so that their size , or want of size , is rather problematical . But the calculators have tried their best . After dif- ferent methods of ...
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... never seen ; of the power necessary to bring and build the atoms so ; of the careful glory thus in waiting for all waters , although the transfiguration may not outlast an instant ; of the kinship of the ice to the heaven - spaces ; and ...
... never seen ; of the power necessary to bring and build the atoms so ; of the careful glory thus in waiting for all waters , although the transfiguration may not outlast an instant ; of the kinship of the ice to the heaven - spaces ; and ...
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... never a sign of Chaos , never an atom fallen out of the All - Ruling Hands ! No chance anywhere , not even in the seeming riot 34 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
... never a sign of Chaos , never an atom fallen out of the All - Ruling Hands ! No chance anywhere , not even in the seeming riot 34 A YEAR OF MIRACLE .
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... never comes from nothing , never ends in nothing ; and they framed philosophies ac- cordingly . But for ages this remained a philos- opher's idea . Not till within a century of our own time have the chemists proved by experi- ments with ...
... never comes from nothing , never ends in nothing ; and they framed philosophies ac- cordingly . But for ages this remained a philos- opher's idea . Not till within a century of our own time have the chemists proved by experi- ments with ...
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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.