 But our path is not backwards but onwards."—This thought is expressed very beautifully in lines as wise and true as they are poetical: " Grieve not for these: nor dare lament That thus from childhood's thoughts we roam: Not backward are our glances...  Poems, Longer and Shorter - Strona 309autor: Thomas Burbidge - 1838 - Liczba stron: 356Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1874 - Liczba stron: 732
...greater riches than the treasures in Egypt : for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. Grieve not for these : nor dare lament That thus from...clogs its earlier years, And simple childhood comes at last By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king : for he endured, as seeing him... | |
 | Fenton John Anthony Hort - 1898 - Liczba stron: 336
...for better uses, and suffers no true gain of our own past to be lost. " Eternal growth hath no dull fears, But freshening still with seasons past, The...earlier years, And simple childhood comes the last." V ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST St. Ippolyts, St. John the Evangelist's Day, 1868. "THAT which we have seen... | |
 | Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - Liczba stron: 294
...flower-like innocence of one, that it is doomed to take on the stains of earth and time. " Eternal youth has no such fears, But freshening still with seasons past, The old man clogs our earlier years, But simple childhood comes at last." This thought underlies Swedenborg's saying,... | |
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