 | 1891 - 448 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for men ! We may borrow the wings to find the way — We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, and pray, 3ut our feet must rise, or we fall again. Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to... | |
 | 1892 - 216 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for men ! We may borrow the wings to find the way — We may...From the weary earth to the sapphire walls ; But the dream departs, and the vision falls, And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for men ! We may borrow the wings to find the way, — We may...But our feet must rise, or we fall again. Only in dreamt is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls ; But the dreams depart, and the... | |
 | 1892 - 222 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for the men! We may borrow the wings to find the way — We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, and pray; Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls; But the dreams depart,... | |
 | 1892 - 648 strani
...increases them. Only that which we cannot do will be done for as. How truly does the poet tell us that "only in dreams is a ladder thrown from the weary earth to the sapphire walls." He would have us wake from our dreaming; he would have us realize and learn patience from the grave,... | |
 | 1893 - 726 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for the men; We may borrow the wings to find the way, We may hope, and aspire, and resolve, and pray, But our feet must rise or we fall again. Only in dreams is a ladder... | |
 | American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - 1896 - 668 strani
...any more than to any other, object in life, nor to have overcome all the "lions in the way," for — "Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls." But we do claim to have given our students a bird's-eye view of the vast field of literature and at least... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 488 strani
...earthly things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings are for angels, but feet for men! We may borrow the wings to find the way ; We may hope...the sapphire walls; But the dreams depart and the ladder falls, And the sleeper wakes on his pillar of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound,... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 strani
...things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for the men ! We may borrow the wings to find the way — We may...From the weary earth to the sapphire walls: But the drearns depart, and the vision falls. And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is. not... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 strani
...sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. AVings for the angel, but feet for men ! We may borrow the wings to find the way; We may hope,...dreams depart, and the vision falls, And the sleeper waits on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached by a single bound ; But we build the ladder by... | |
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Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls; But the dream departs, and the vision falls, And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. 
