 Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2671842Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 588 pages
...past, they may well look forward with hopefulness to the future, for of them it may be truly said: ' Men the workers, ever reaping something new ; That...they have done but earnest of the things that they will do.' What is to be the next great step in the political career of Canada is a question which frequently... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1868 - 856 pages
...may behold without doubting a part of the increasing purpose that runs through the ages — . . . . " Men the workers ever reaping something new ; That...done but earnest of the things that they shall do." No institution is entitled to outlive the utility of its functions ; may the Royal Scottish Society... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of man are widen'd With the process of the suns. " Men, our brothers, men, the workers, Ever reaping something...done but earnest Of the things that they shall do." Yes, what has been done, and what is doing, is only the earnest of what shall yet be wrought out in... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...they may well look forward with hopefulness to the future, for of them it may be truly said : — Hen the workers, ever reaping something new ; That which...they have done but earnest of the things that they will do. What is to be the next great step in the political career of Canada is a question which frequently... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...heels. Can I but re-live in sadness? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep emotion, 0 thou wondrous mother-age ! Make me feel the wild pulsation...they have done but earnest of the things that they «hall do : For I dipt into the future, far аз human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusty highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the...but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...AND ST. MICHAEL'S СНСПСН. -4.. " Men, my brothers, men, the workers, ever reaping some- ' thing new ; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. Xot in vain the distance beacons : forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 488 pages
...grave ! MBS. ACTON TINDAL. THE COMING REFORMATION. PART in. " Men, my brothers, men the workers, eyer reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do." TENNYSON. MY DEAR PERCY. — So you are satisfied with my analysis of Toryism,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...dwarfs them. Their citizens must say with the poet — ' Men my brothers — men the workers — always reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall ik>. * * * * Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward — forward let us range ; Let the people spin... | |
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