I once had a sparrow alight on my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. —Page 299.
And while in life’s late afternoon
Where cool and long the shadows grow,
I walk to meet the night that soon
Shall shape and darkness overflow,
I cannot feel that thou art far,
Since near at hand the angels are;
And when the sunset gates unbar,
Shall I not see thee waiting stand,
And, white against the evening star,
The welcome of thy beckoning hand? —Page 389.
He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright. —Page 397.
(Volume VIII)
Go tell the Spartans, thou that passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. —Page 90.
Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat:
The Alamo had none. —Page 152.
England expects every man to do his duty. —Page 297.
An’ Oh! be sure to fear the Lord alway!
An’ mind your duty, duly, morn and night! —Page 322.
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. —Page 322.