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. 1890 Excerpt: ...ghostly tomb, While altars rolled their chants, their rich perfume, Yet felt I not the Eternal presence there; The circling breath was still but common air. In forest valleys I have dwelt alone A summer's day, where wildly overgrown, The leaves made a deep darkness of their own. At morn, in idle mood I laid me there; ...
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...ghostly tomb, While altars rolled their chants, their rich perfume, Yet felt I not the Eternal presence there; The circling breath was still but common air. In forest valleys I have dwelt alone A summer's day, where wildly overgrown, The leaves made a deep darkness of their own. At morn, in idle mood I laid me there; At eve I wandered home with awe-struck air. And I have wandered by the unbounded sea In gamesome humour, light, and gay, and free, Till a deep voice grew audible in me; A voice I cannot hear where men repair; It grows with lonely sands and salt sea-air. For hour by hour a subtle influence steals And deepens inward, till my spirit feels In those dim fastnesses it ne'er reveals An all-enfolding presence whispering there, And thoughts flow deep that words could scarce lay bare. JLbc Ifouman ifoeart an& its Goal Has faith grown stale? Does hope run dry In these our busy ages? Does greed alone light up youth's eye And craft alone the sage's? I heard the voice of him, who said, In accents hard and bitter: "All noble thoughts in man are dead, Which once like stars did glitter." He said, "All hero-souls are gone, --Long, long ago departed, --Who once with splendid purpose shone, The great, the stately-hearted." "And now," he said, "The fraudful earth, That in deception festers, Bears none but men that shame their birth From glory-crowned ancestors." "Poor huckster hearts and base," he said, "Of shams, and tricks, and lying, The age of chivalry is fled, --And manly virtue dying. "The heart of man, grown poor and mean, Knows nought of grand endeavour, And it will taste of what has been On earth no more for ever." He rails, --this greybeard, touched with bile, --He rails in cynic fashion, And...
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