This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... makes the past time serve to-day; And fresher life the world shall draw From their decay. O, backward-looking son of time! The new is old, the old is new, The cycle of a change sublime Still sweeping through. So wisely taught the Indian seer; Destroying Seva, forming Brahm, Who wake by turns Earth's love and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... makes the past time serve to-day; And fresher life the world shall draw From their decay. O, backward-looking son of time! The new is old, the old is new, The cycle of a change sublime Still sweeping through. So wisely taught the Indian seer; Destroying Seva, forming Brahm, Who wake by turns Earth's love and fear, Are one, the same. As idly as, in that old day, Thou mournest, did thy sires repine, So, in his time, thy child grown gray Shall sigh for thine. Yet, not the less for them or thou The eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats! Take heart!--the Waster builds again, --A charmed life old Goodness hath; The tares may perish, --but the grain Is not for death. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night: Ho, wake and watch!--the world is gray With morning light! O, take me where Are hearts of prayer, And foreheads bowed in reverent fear! Not lightly fall Beyond recall The written scrolls a breath can float; The crowning fact, The kingliest act Of Freedom is the freeman's vote! For pearls that gem A diadem The diver in the deep sea dies; The regal right We boast to-night Is ours through costlier sacrifice; The blood of Vane, His prison pain Who traced the path the pilgrim trod, And hers whose faith Drew strength from death, And prayed her Russell up to God! Our hearts grow cold, We lightly hold A right which brave men died to gain; The stake, the cord, The axe, the sword, Grim nurses at its birth of pain. The shadow rend, And o'er us bend, O martyrs, with your crowns and palms, --Breathe through these throngs Your battle songs, Your scaffold prayers and dungeon psalms! Look from the sky, Like God's great eye, Thou solemn moon, with searching beam; Till in the sight Of thy pure
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