 | David Thomas - 1864 - 756 σελίδες
...following lines are as true in regard to spiritual progress as they are to worldly progress : — "Wo have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb, By alow degrees, by more and more The cloudy summits of our time. "The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 σελίδες
...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...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid hastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 σελίδες
...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...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1865 - 976 σελίδες
...the trutii of these noble words : — We have not wings, we cannot soar : But we have feut to acale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When uearer seeu, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 738 σελίδες
...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...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 σελίδες
...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...When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 σελίδες
...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...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time,' " And this is just the business I have been engaged in. It was for this reason I could not better hear... | |
 | 1866 - 836 σελίδες
...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...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 σελίδες
...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... | |
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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. 
