 | John Henry Lester - 1885 - 152 pages
...fail, because they have lost the true principle of progress. O brothers — " hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may risa on stepping-stones Of their dead souls to higher things." O Jesus, true Son of Man, teach us to-day... | |
 | John Clifford - 1885 - 506 pages
...has in familiar lines affirmed this doctrine in relation to ourselves— "I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead solves to higher things." The author of Gravenhunt, or TJioityhts... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...always may be what we might have been." He is the Laureate's singer of hope : I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. And the third characteristic of the... | |
 | 1886 - 204 pages
...faithfully, manfully to be right ; he will grow daily more and more right CARLYLE. I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. TENNYSON. 11. Let thine eyes look right... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1886 - 352 pages
...ivy, which flourishes only on decay; it is the time to cry with the poet: "I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." ROBEBT COLLYEB. "HE SHEWED HIMSELF-ALIVE1"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years... | |
 | 1886 - 372 pages
...man, And not from man, () Lord, to thee. — IN MEUORIAM. LONGFELLOW. (?) I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. — IN MEMORIAM, S. t, LIES. A lie which... | |
 | William Cochrane - 1887 - 346 pages
...error ; and this state is well expressed in Tennyson's beautiful lines : I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to better things. The speaker does not believe that if... | |
 | American Correctional Association - 1907 - 348 pages
...to us in the travail of their souls and whose need is great. Tennyson says : I hold it true with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. We all assent to the truth expressed... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. .1849 i I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years... | |
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I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
