...changed into a child ! 'Mid weeds und wrecks she stood — a place Of ruin — but she smiled I " Oh, had I lived in that great day, How had its glory new Fill'd earth and heaven, and caught away My ravished spirit too ! " No cloister-floor of humid stone...

...Christianity in verses of unexampled pathos, but a pulse is felt in every line that throbs responsive to " the wave Of love which set so deep and strong From Christ's then open grave." He mourns the failing of the living spring at which his father drank ; then sees,...

...changed into a child. 'Mid weeds and wrecks she stood, — a place Of ruin, — but she smiled ! " O, had I lived in that great day, How had its glory new...heaven, and caught away My ravished spirit too ! " No cloister-floor of humid stone Had been too cold for me ; For me no Eastern desert lone Had been too...

...world a few ages sooner. While Christianity was credible, he would so gladly have believed it. " Oh, had I lived in that great day, How had its glory new Fill'd earth and heaven, and caught away My ravish'd spirit too ! "No cloister-floor of humid stone...

...like this ? — Of love she felt the tide Stream on her from her Lord'* yet recent grave. or this: No thoughts that to the world belong Had stood against...Of love, which set so deep and strong From Christ's then open grave, or, again: That gracious Child, that thorn-crown'd Man, He lived while we helieved,...

...She changed into a child ! 'Mid weeds and wrecks she stood—a place Of ruin—but she smiled! Oh, had I lived in that great day, How had its glory new Fill'd earth and heaven, and caught away My ravish'd spirit too ! No cloister-floor of humid stone...

...dead Christ has slipped the helm of the world : — " Oh ! had I lived in that great day, How liad its glory new, Filled Earth and Heaven, and caught away My ravished spirit too. No lonely life had passed too slow When I could hourly see, That wan nailed form, with head drooped low,...

...liv'd in that great day, How had its glory new I iH\i earth and heaven, and caught away My ravish'd spirit too ! . . . . No thoughts that to the world...Of love which set so deep and strong from Christ's then open grave. No lonely life had pass'd too slow When I could hourly see That wan, nail'd Form,...

...the ages of faith, because in them his ' ravished spirit ' would also have been ' caught away,' and ' No thoughts that to the world belong Had stood against...Of love which set so deep and strong From Christ's then open grave.' The life of Christ is forgotten or passed over, not because Mr. Arnold does pot believe...

...untainted by the disease of modern life, and into which he could have thrown his whole heart — Oh had I lived in that great day — How had its glory...and heaven, and caught away My ravished spirit too. Lord Byron used to declare, that if Lucretius had not been spoiled by the Epicurean system, we should...