...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows...

...LETTERS. ON bravely through the sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we hare ours. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man ; "When Duty whispers low ' Thou must,9 The youth replies, 'lean.* THE MAN OF LETTEES. AM ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES...

...JAMES F. COBB, FRGS AUTHOK OF 'THE WATCHERS ON THE LONGSHIPS,' 'SILENT JIM,' ETC. ' So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers loud, "Thou must !" The youth replies, " I can." • EMERSON. LONDON: CONTENTS. CHAP. PAOE I. TWO LADS...

...from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must.' The youth replies, " I can." 5. A wonderful thing is a seed ; The one thing deathless forever — Forever old and forever new, Utterly...

...to him that believeth. — MARK ix. 23. Nothing shall be impossible unto you. — MATT. icvii. 20. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. RW EMERSON. that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order, has...

...I. This paragraph suggests Guy, the " mortal mixed of middle clay," in the Poems. Page 38, note I. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. " Voluntaries," Poems. Page 39, note I. And through man and woman and sea and star Saw the dance of...

...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterwards said: " I love inexpressibly these streets of Boston,...

...hearts that a thing being difficult or irksome or disagreeable is no reason whatever for not doing it. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can* VIII. ' ' Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee,...

...accustomed us to them. Let me have the pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply...

...cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly these streets of...