...brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of Nature roll'd The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free...

...some irrepressible influence acting on the soul from within. The poet before quoted says truly, — " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The h»rifl that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...

...thing that man may keep. — Chaucer. That mercy I to others show, That mercy shown to me. — Pope. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. — Emerson. The childhood shows the man As the morning shows the day. — Milton. Know then this truth...

...walls, these all shall speak to us, for they were born of his purpose, they came here from his design. "Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias wrought. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad...

...transcendence. It is no accident that Johnson made Emerson's lines the epigraph for his entire series: Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. He continues in the Emersonian current, "The ethics of Confucius and the piety of the Vedas are to...

...Calvinism" and his exultant, almost Faustian determination upon "SelfReliance" can find to his chagrin that "Out from the heart of nature rolled / The burdens of the Bible old."16 Yet among many antinomian American writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, even...

...Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove...burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and...

...these grand lines from the "Problem:" "Out of the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's...tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." I had just withdrawn from the Presbyterian ministry, on account of doubts and a tendency to liberal...