...a great mission, or more fitly embody a sublime faith in the continuance of the soul's existence ? One who never turned his back, but marched breast...worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise again ; are baffled, to fight better, Sleep, to wake ! No ! At noonday, in the bustle of man's worktime,...

...its future years. The one is inseparable from the other. Because he lived, the city will five. He was "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would trinmph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." II. D. STEVENS. Alton,...

...summing up of himself and his life-work : nor could a more discerning summary be found than in the words, One who never turned his back, but marched breast...would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wron<* would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep or wake. Upon the announcement...

...slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being who? One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep...

...moving on through the gloomy fog ; assembling from many a distant 'p'laee to show respect to one £ i " Who never turned his back, but marched breast forward...; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, Wrong would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,...

...precious memorial of faith, and an invigorating impulse to a like assurance in less gifted minds : — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a choer ! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, ' Strive and thrive ' ! cry ' speed !...

...to our last witness, let us pause one moment to let Browning speak his own character and epitaph. " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." Noble lines for a poet's farewell to the world, but not nobler than the life which made it possible...

...selfish, views of life, retards effort, and checks the spirit of enterprise. Browning speaks of— "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better ; Sleep to wake." This subject is capable of application in various ways. The optimism of Isaiah, Christ, Paul, and John...

...that unflinching loyalty to his ideal, which neither praise nor blame can turn aside; for Browning was "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." Francis B. Hornbrooke. WHERE SHAKESPEARIAN CRITICS DISAGREE. " IF I do not keep step with my companions,...

...as losing our influence by turning our eyes too much upon it. When we can say of any man that " He never turned his back, but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake," then we know that such a man is sure to have exercised spiritual power over others. When any man marches...