...query, or challenge ? For, to apply certain lines of Mr. Tennyson's, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that MIGHT HAVE BEEN.§ Mr. Carlyle, although in at least one place he treats the speculation of historical would-have-beens...

...query, or challenge ? For, to apply certain lines of Mr. Tennyson's, while \\e breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that MIGHT HAVE REEN.§ Mr. Carlyle, although in at least one place he treats the speculation of historical would-have-beens...

...a little dust of praise. Thy leaf has perished in the green; And while we breathe beneath tJie sun, The world which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been. So here shall silence guard thy fame: But somewhere out of human view, Whatever thy hand is set to...

...works, if he live at all. "Thy leaf has perished in the green : And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been." What, then, is done ? . . . The question is partly answered in these two volumes of poems. A few words...

...a little dust of praise. Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. So here shall silence guard thy fame ; But somewhere, out of human view, Whate'er thy hands are set...

...challenge ? For, to apply certain lines of Mr. Tennyson's, —— while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Mr. Carlyle, although in at least one place he treats the speculation of historical would-have-b$ens...

...a little dust of praise. Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. So here shall silence guard thy fame ; But somewhere, out of human view, Whate'er thy hands are set...

...Oriental Church has never departed. Her failure in western Europe was a noble one. " The world that credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been." But God, who is more than the world, with eternal memory, has (in the Japanese poet's word) " forgotten...

...works, if he live at all. " Thy leaf has perished in the green : And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been." What, then, is done? . . . The question is partly answered in these two volumes of poems. A few words...

...little dust of praise. Thy leaf has perish 'd in the green, And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. So here shall silence guard thy fame ; ; But somewhere, out of human view, P Whate'er thy hands are...