 I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest once cut down: the new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the...  The Railway Clerk - Page 4891919Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 434 pages
...I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is over my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers; why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1876 - 404 pages
...ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine k on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing^but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Materialism - 1880 - 156 pages
...ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is... | |
 | Edwin Dwight Babbitt - Spiritualism - 1881 - 394 pages
...ever. I am rising I know towards the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter is... | |
 | S. G. Lathrop - Christian life - 1881 - 424 pages
...e^'er. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminious when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter... | |
 | S. G. Lathrop - Christian life - 1881 - 422 pages
...say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminious when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is on my head, and eternal Spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets,... | |
 | William Cochrane - Annihilationism - 1886 - 568 pages
...ever. I am "'sing. I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing bu* the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more 'uminous when my bodily powers begin... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - Anglican Communion - 1888 - 232 pages
...ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown..." You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter is... | |
 | James Henry Potts - Apologetics - 1888 - 562 pages
...ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown...worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. "Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter... | |
 | 1901 - 736 pages
...which with old-time sweetness and the confidence born of unfaltering faith exclaims, with Victor Hugo: "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart! I am rising, I know, toward the sky. Heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds." Such is... | |
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