| Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...depart, and the vision falls, And the sleeper wakes 011 his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which...From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mouut to the summit round by round. MISCHIEF MAKERS. OH, could there in this world be found Borne little... | |
| Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island - 1872 - 530 pages
...have done them perfectly if I could, yet " Heaven is not reached by a single bound ; But wo build tho ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the...skies, And we mount to its summit round by round." Fraternally submitted, ALFRED F. CHAPMAN, Orand Recorder. On motion it was Voted, That the report he... | |
| 1873 - 350 pages
...the book before you. — Atml Judys Magazine. UEATEN is not reached by a single bound, 1 ••'.![ we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly...vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by rouud. * * * * * We rise by the things that are under our feet ; By what we have mastered of good and... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - History - 1873 - 638 pages
...depart and the vision falls, And the .sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, RETURNING CLOUDS. THE clouds are returning after the rain. All the long morning they steadily sweep... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - History - 1873 - 688 pages
...remain On the height, and wait for us Till we climb to heaven again ! GRADATIM. HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise ; From the lowly earth to the vaulted Hkies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true : That a noble... | |
| Universalism - 1873 - 522 pages
...reached by a single bound," sings Dr. Holland, truly enough, but he also adds " We build the ladders by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies," and that leaves the best half of the truth untold. It is false mechanics. Ladders do not stand up in the... | |
| Universalism - 1874 - 1002 pages
...godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity ; remembering that " Heaven is not gained by a single bound, But we build the ladder by which...skies. And we mount to its summit round by round. I hold thete things to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step towards God ; Lifting the soul from... | |
| American poetry - 1874 - 686 pages
...depart, and the vision falls, And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which...skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. 1872. JG HOLLAND. TIME WAS I SHRANK FROM WHAT WAS RIGHT. ' I "IME was I shrank from what was right,... | |
| James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...refuse to do a bad thing is to do a good one. **» Self-imfrovemenl.] XXIIL Heaven is not gained at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we...vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by rout d. I count this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the... | |
| William Brisbane Dick - Readers - 1877 - 214 pages
...his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which wo rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. THE INQUIRY. CHARLES MACKAY. Tell me, ye winged winds, that round my pathway roar, Do ye not know some... | |
| |