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What! shall one monk, scarce known beyond his cell, Front Rome's far-reaching bolts, and scorn her frown? Brave Luther answered, "Yes"; that thunder's swell Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown. - To W.L. Garrison (st. 5) [Courage] O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing. - To------ [Belief] The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. - Under the old Elm [Washington, George] And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race. - Under the Old Elm (pt. VII, st. 3) [Comparison] Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us, The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay. Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking, 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. - Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I) [Compensation] Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. - Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. II, st. 8) [Gifts] Displaying page 14 of 14 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [14]
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