...Whittier's poems. The following, from " The Chapel of the Hermits," is hardly a plagiarism : — " That all of good the Past hath had Remains to make our own time glad." But Lowell's version is better : — " The Present moves attended By all of brave and excellent and...

...Sometimes," says he — " — Sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal right And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady...past hath had, Remains to make our own time glad;" » * » * * " And still the new transcends the old, In signs and tokens manifold : Slaves rise up men,...

...Whittier's poems. The following, from " The Chapel of the Hermits," is hardly a plagiarism : — " That all of good the Past hath had Remains to make our own time glad." But Lowell's version is better : — " The Present moves attended By all of brave and excellent and...

...unresting, still it cometh. " Por lometlmes glimpse] on my light, Through present wrong the eternal right : And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man." The distant tread of advancing millions, like low rumbling thunder, is borne to our ear. Our finer...

...crude and conceited and undevout. The reverent mind is well persuaded That all of good the past has had Remains to make our own time glad; Our common daily life divine, And every land a Palestine. On the other hand the religion of the past can never be set up as the Procrustean bed to which the...

...happeueth unto all. " Yet, sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal rig'it ; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady...our own time glad, — Our common daily life divine, An3 every land a Palestine. " Thou weariest of thy present state ; What gain to thee time's holiest...

...words of a sweet poet — " Sometimes flashes on my sight, Through present wrongs, the eternal right ; And step by step since time began I see the steady gain of man. "And still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold. Slaves rise up men — -the olive...

...gleams upon our sight, Through present wrong, the Eternal Right! And step by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man ; — That all of good...common daily life divine, And every land a Palestine. We lack but open eye and ear To find the Orient's marvels here, The still small voice in autumn's hush,...

...! And ftep by ftep, fince time began, We see the fteady gain of man ; — That all of good the paft hath had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common daily life divine, And every land a Paleftine. We lack but open eye and ear To find the Orient's marvels here, — The ftill small voice...

...! And ftep by ftep, fince time began, We see the fteady gain of man ; — That all of good the paft hath had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common daily life divine, And every land a Paleftine. We lack but open eye and ear To find the Orient's marvels here, — The ftill small voice...