...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...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...

...in their inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for being...

...echoed farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined...

...far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians....

...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...

...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation of men to follow their...

...the lips of the man whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that...

...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, ^ When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 2 The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation...

...beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, SHAKESPEARE. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians....

...same ungrudging sacrifice of all for them, if the need come. " How nigh is grandeur to our dust, How near is God to man ! When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " Emerson was a New Engländer in every fibre, and it is the soul of New England that speaks in his...