...her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." ADVANCED FOURTH HEADER. 44. — The Robins. at-traet'ed, drawn, allured. areh'i-teet, a builder....

...come. Go and do your duty," and everything generous and noble in the heart responds, and says amen ! " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to mnn, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must! The youth replies, ' 1 can ! '" These are the great occasions,...

...LOWELL (The Fatherland). 82 IN an age of fops and toys, "Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall move heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom's fight, —...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze...

...be dead. III. IN an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic hoys To hazard all in Freedom's fight, — Break sharply...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows...

...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation of men to follow their...

...echoed farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And...

...far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American...

...in their inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless...

...the lips of the man whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that...

...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, ^ When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 2 The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation...