 | 1869 - 406 pages
...work here is done. " Going on" is at once our goal and our prize. Tennyson singing of " Wages" says, " Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to bo lost on an endless sea — Glory of virtue, to fight, to struggle, to riprht the wrong — Nay,... | |
 | Cheltenham College - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1868 - 412 pages
...amount or enormity of type can possibly make it a poem. As it is short, here it is in full : — " Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,...Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless searGlory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong r" Nay but she aimed not at glory, no... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 pages
...them in such fitting words. Shortly summed we can weigh the wages of all mere earthly efforts : — " Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,...with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea." But contrasted with this we have, in words which we will not mar by quotation, the glory of virtue,... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1893 - 638 pages
...larger life, and they have received their reward in the fruition of character. They are going on: '• Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying to be lost on an endless sea. Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle to right the wrong. Nay, but she... | |
 | 1868 - 556 pages
...write it. 270 MACMILEAN'S MAGAZINE. FEBEUARY, 1868. WAGES. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE. ULORY of -warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid...with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — < i lory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong— Kay, but she aim'd not at glory,... | |
 | 1870 - 976 pages
...man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. 30 WAGES. MI88 ABIGAIL JANE TEEKT. Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,...fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but she aiin'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...was his nearest? Who was his dearest ? The Gods have answer'd; We give them the wife I" WAGES. GLOBY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with...to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, tc nght, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she:... | |
 | William Graham - 1872 - 256 pages
...my apprehension of it, are contained in the following great lines of our greatest living poet: — " Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,...to be lost on an endless sea ; Glory of Virtue to struggle, to suffer, to right the wrong — Nay, but she looked not for glory, no lover of glory she,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...his nearest ? Who was his dearest f The Gods have answer'd ; We give them the wife Г WAGES. Gt.OBY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying hy to he lost on an endless sea— Glory of Virtne, to flght, to strnggle, to right the wrong — Nay,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...Which was his nearest ? Who was his dearest ? The Gods have answer'd ; We give them the wife 1 " WAGES. GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be Tost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but... | |
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Nay, but she airn'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? 
