 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 sider
...the bright field of Fair Renown The nght of eminent domain! We have not wings — we cannot soarBut 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 sider
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...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,... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 sider
...above thee, and he will requite ; Desert those that love thee, but never the right ! LM LONOFBLLOW. WE have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 738 sider
...and he will requite ; Desert those that love thee, but never the right I Af)\ LMHW LONGFELLOW. Steps. have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 sider
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright field of fair renown The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb By Blow degrees — by more and more— The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 sider
...we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread, Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' But then, " ' We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time,' " And this is just the business I have been engaged in. It was for... | |
 | 1866 - 836 sider
...thee, and he will requite; Desert those that love thee, but never the right ! LM LONGFELLOW. Steps. have not wings — we cannot soar— But we have feet...scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 sider
...feet, if we would gain In the bright field of Fair Renown The right of eminent domain ! We have no wings, — we cannot soar, — 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... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 sider
...we would gain In the bright field of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings—we cannot soar— 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... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1867 - 414 sider
...a great work, and proving, through patience, pains, and prayer, the truth of these noble words :— We have not wings, we cannot soar: But we have feet...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,... | |
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We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. 
