 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 cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 74by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...But we have feet to scale or climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...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 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...feats or facts are accomplished. As Longfollow so happily says, in his " Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...emergency. The life of Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden night ; Eut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 - 316 pages
...it. We see the glory that is entered, but we are ignorant of the toils which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...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 pages
...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...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.... | |
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