 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the sides, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden... | |
 | 1851 - 608 sider
...Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 308 sider
...which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 sider
...which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 sider
...The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like eleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher... | |
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But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. 
