 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...  Latest Interpretation - Page 159by Samuel A. Gardner - 1886 - 208 pagesFull 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 - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 328 pages
...While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
..."While on mine ear it rings Through the deep caves of thought, I hear a voice that sings — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past I Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal." PROMETHEUS. —Pereival. •' 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... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Universalism - 1870 - 280 pages
...that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever." II. UNIVERSALISM AS A HOME. "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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