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" The angels keep their ancient places; Turn but a stone and start a wing! 'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. "
The Theory and Practice of Mysticism - Page 165
by Charles Morris Addison - 1918 - 214 pages
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 78

Religion - 1914 - 540 pages
...in motion If they have rumour of thee there ? 1 By Bishop Ryle in Westminster Abbey, Christmas 1913. Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendour'd thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry ; — and upon thy so sore loss...
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study ..., Volume 24

Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - Philosophy - 1924 - 286 pages
...increasing richness, yet never completely re-unified either by the finite individual or by a group. Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...wing, 'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry, and upon thy so sore loss Shall...
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Book Auction Records, Volume 15

Frank Karslake - Autographs - 1918 - 700 pages
...little less beautiful, are the verses which ought to find a place in every anthology of London :— " The angels keep their ancient places ; Turn but a...' Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadden) Cry ;—and upon thy so sore loss Shall...
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Selected Poems of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson - English poetry - 1908 - 176 pages
...ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there ? Not where the wheeling systems darken,...'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry; — and upon thy so sore loss...
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Selected Poems

Francis Thompson - 1910 - 178 pages
...ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there ? Not where the wheeling systems darken,...'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry; — and upon thy so sore loss...
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The Mount of Vision: A Book of English Mystic Verse

Adeline Cashmore - Mysticism - 1910 - 192 pages
...ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there ! Not where the wheeling systems darken,...'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. 150 But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry ; — and upon thy so sore...
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A Manual of Spiritual Fortification

English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air, Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...wing! Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder), Cry:—and upon thy so sore loss Shall...
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Shelburne Essays: Seventh Series

Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1910 - 492 pages
...ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken,...ancient places; — Turn but a stone, and start a wing! *T is ye, 't is your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst...
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Shelburne Essays

Paul Elmer More - Criticism - 1910 - 284 pages
...ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken,...ancient places; — Turn but a stone, and start a wing! T is ye, 't is your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst...
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The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, Volume 68

Music - 1927 - 1024 pages
...seems to have possessed his particular secret of high values and far vision combined when he wrote : The angels keep their ancient places ; — Turn but a stone and start a wing ! Need any one of us now 'miss the many-splendoured thing ' ? BEETHOVEN IN HIS TWENTY-FtRST YEAR Front...
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