The Crank: An Unconventional Magazine, Volume 10

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C.W. Daniel., 1912
 

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Página 247 - There was a Door to which I found no Key: There was a Veil past which I could not see: Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE There seem'd — and then no more of THEE and ME. Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried, Asking, 'What Lamp had Destiny to guide 'Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?
Página 150 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 120 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 210 - Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out: heaven is my need Every woodland tree is flushing like the dogwood, Flashing like the whitebeam, swaying like the reed.
Página 257 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done...
Página 299 - Yunghahn relates that he saw in Java a plain far as the eye could reach entirely covered with skeletons, and took it for a battlefield ; they were, however, merely the skeletons of large turtles, five feet long and three feet broad, and the same height, which come this way out of the sea in order to lay their eggs, and are then attacked by wild dogs...
Página 198 - For mine own good All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Página 319 - All religion, all solid things, arts, governments— all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe. Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
Página 298 - ... merely to begin again from the beginning the same labour ; then also how, like this, the life of the birds is for the most part taken up with their distant and laborious migrations, then with the building of their nests and the collecting of food for the brood, which itself has to play the same role the following year ; and so all work constantly for the future, which afterwards makes bankrupt ; — then we cannot avoid looking round for the reward of all this skill and trouble, for the end which...
Página 366 - All that we lay hold of resists us because it has its own will, which must be overcome. at the age of five years to enter a cotton-spinning or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

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