Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low- vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by... The Silver-Burdett Readers: First-fifth book - Page 34by Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1906Full view - About this book
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pages
...sacred precincts of the heart of each one of you there sings the song of the poet who said: "Build thee more stately mansions, O, my soul, As the swift seasons roll. Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut tbee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings :— Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low- vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low- vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, THE TWO AEMIBS. As Life's unending column pours,... | |
| John George Wood - Natural history - 1863 - 840 pages
...deep caves of thought I hear a voic.i that sings : — Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low vaulted past ; Let each new temple, nobler than the lost, Shut thre from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine... | |
| Frances Elizabeth Willard - Literary Criticism - 1864 - 268 pages
...will not fret about the future, but will try now to do with my might whatever is in my power. " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shot thce from heaven with... | |
| Congregationalism - 1866 - 648 pages
...this is the lesson which the poet gathers from it : " Build thee more stately mansions, oh, my soul. As the swift seasons roll, Leave thy low vaulted past ; Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven, with a dome more vast ; Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine... | |
| Congregationalism - 1866 - 650 pages
...this is the lesson which the poet gathers from it : " Build thee more stately mansions, oh, my soul. As the swift seasons roll, Leave thy low vaulted past; Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven, with a dome more vast ; Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: v. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a... | |
| Animal welfare - 1889 - 226 pages
...drove on. If that horse was not intelligent, what was he?— Salem Evening Nevis. EXCELSIOR. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a... | |
| James Perkins Walker - Children's sermons - 1869 - 286 pages
...Holmes, in his poem on the Nautilus ; and I wish I could bring it home to every one of you : — " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ; Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with... | |
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