 New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo! before us gleam her camp-fires, we ourselves must Pilgrims be. Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the...  Messiah Pulpit - Page 141904Full view - About this book
 | Congregational churches - 1886 - 786 pages
...faintest stir? History and experience abundantly confirm the poet's thought : — " New occasions teach new duties ; time makes Ancient good uncouth ; They...must upward still and onward who Would keep abreast of truth." It is not unreasonable, therefore, to inquire whether seventy-six years of foreign missionary... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : — uNew occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth : Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1849 - 392 pages
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 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...funeral lamps away, To light up the martyr-faggots round the prophets of to-day 1 New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...upward, still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...haste to slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 270 pages
...the funeral lamps away To light up the manyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day? New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...transcend our predecessors, in their efforts to give peace, joy, liberty to the world. 1New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...upward, still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth: — Lo! before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) - Festivals - 1853 - 206 pages
...all reformers. He caught these words of noble cheer from Plymouth Rock : — " New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth : Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! We ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer: — " New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of Truth: Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
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