 | Julia McNair Wright - 1891 - 394 sivua
...for us, and certainly would have shone on Ovid, who told the tale. A poet has written truly : —- " Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light Still travelling downward through the sky, Fall on our mortal sight." So vast are these star-distances that it takes hundreds... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1892 - 272 sivua
...thing on earth, except a great defeat." 50. Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its.light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1892 - 900 sivua
...move and breathe in the example and the influence of noble lives, and these things can never die. • "Were a star quenched on high For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from the sky, Bless our mortal sight : "So when a goo I man dies, For years beyond... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1893 - 66 sivua
...neighborhood : Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from on high, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a good man dies,...our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the path of men. ADDRESS OF MR. SEERLEY, OF IOWA. Mr. SPEAKER: It is a pleasure for me to be permitted... | |
 | 1893 - 472 sivua
...one, however rich or great, Is by his station or estate Exempted. — The Sifting of Peter. RENOWN. Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond... | |
 | United States. 52d Congress, 2d session - 1893 - 60 sivua
...say of this one, who was good, whose memory is a shining light in the annals of his neighborhood : Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from on high, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a good man dies, For years beyond... | |
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1910 - 742 sivua
...labors and call his memory blessed. As the Poet Longfellow has well sung, of an illustrious American : Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the skv, Shine on our mortal sight." "So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 200 sivua
...day. The battle took place at Sempach in Switzerland, July 9, 1386, and its anniversary is still kept. Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,1 For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1894 - 134 sivua
...great American i>oet lias said: Were a Htar quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - 1895 - 490 sivua
...Prime-Minister and powerful speaker. They will carry his name still further down the corridors of time, as " Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downwards from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So. when a great man dies For years beyond our ken,... | |
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Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. 
