Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society, Issue 317 |
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Page 58 - The planet, not the leaden orb itself. Press out, each point, from surface to yon verge Which one has gained and guaranteed your realm ! " Ay, still my fragments wander, music-fraught, Sighs of the soul, mine once, mine now, and mine For ever ! Crumbled arch, crushed aqueduct, Alive with tremors in the shaggy growth Of wild-wood, crevice-sown, that triumphs there Imparting exultation to the hills...
Page 108 - The pain and set the patient on his legs Promptly : the better ! had it been the worse, 'T is Nature you must try conclusions with, Not he, since nursing canker kills the sick For certain, while to cut may cure, at least. 1570
Page 68 - That mass man sprung from was a jelly-lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish and insect, reptile, bird and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one.
Page 71 - As well account that way for many a thrill Of kinship, I confess to, with the powers Called Nature : animate, inanimate, In parts or in the whole, there 's something there Man-like that somehow meets the man in me.
Page 9 - Power passing mine, immeasurable, God — Above me, whom He made, as heaven beyond Earth — to use figures which assist our sense. I know that He is there as I am here, By the same proof, which seems no proof at all, It so exceeds familiar forms of proof. Why "there,
Page 72 - And reach by link on link, link small, link large, Out to the due length — why, there 's forethought still Outside o' the series, forging at one end, While at the other there 's — no matter what The kind of critical intelligence Believing that last link had last but one For parent, and no link was, first of all, Fitted to anvil, hammered into shape. Else, I accept the doctrine, and deduce This duty, that I recognize mankind, In all its height and depth and length and breadth. Mankind i...
Page 63 - Fit only for a voice to float in free. Such eyes I saw that craved the light alone, Such mouths that wanted bread and nothing else, Such hands that supplicated handiwork, Men with the wives, and women with the babes...
Page 40 - This is the glory, — that in all conceived, Or felt or known, I recognize a mind Not mine, but like mine, — for the double joy, — Making all things for me, and me for Him.
Page 78 - The royalest of rivers : on you glide Silverly till you reach the summit-edge, Then over, on to all that ignorance, Stupidity, hate, envy, bluffs and blocks, Posted to fret you into foam and noise. What of it ? Up you mount in minute mist...
Page 52 - I merely tend the corn-field, care for crop, And weed no acre thin to let emerge What prodigy may stifle there perchance, — No, though my eye have noted where he lurks. Oh those mute myriads that spoke loud to me — The eyes that craved to see the light, the mouths That sought the daily bread and nothing more, The hands that supplicated exercise, Men that had wives, and women that had babes, And all these making suit to only live...