 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 436 pages
...gained by approaching near its base on this area, and seeing it separated from the rest of the ridge. The mighty pyramids of stone, That, wedge-like, cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen nnd better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their solid... | |
 | Joseph Mullens - Missions - 1862 - 508 pages
...be thou dismayed : for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." — JOSHUA i. 9. " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions... | |
 | Joseph Mullens - Missions - 1862 - 508 pages
...be thou dismayed : for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." — JOSHUA i. 9. " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attaiu'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions... | |
 | Ellen Clacy - 1862 - 294 pages
...the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents — Are rounds by which we may ascend * We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...and more— . The cloudy summits of our time. * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions... | |
 | 1862 - 972 pages
...the great ends we have in view, even as the same poet we have already quoted, has said — " We hare not wings, we cannot soar : But we have feet to scale...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If rising on its wrecks at last, To... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The ri<>-ht of eminent domain. o We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone Chat wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...these most first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright Belds of fair renown The right of eminent domain. ' We have not wings,...pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert air^ When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1864 - 756 pages
...following lines are as true in regard to spiritual progress as they are to worldly progress : — "Wo have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb, By alow degrees, by more and more The cloudy summits of our time. "The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...above thee, and he will requite ; Desert those that love thee, but never the right ! LM LONOFBLLOW. WE have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1865 - 976 pages
...the trutii of these noble words : — We have not wings, we cannot soar : But we have feut to acale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When uearer seeu, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar... | |
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We have not wings —we cannot soar— But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 
