...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior I TO THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, ABSENT ON A VISIT. BY SEBA SMITH. COME home my dear Elizabeth ; I'm sure could...

...of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice came through the startled air, "Excelsior !" A traveller,...grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange devica, "Excelsior !" There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless but beautiful he lay, And from...

...it without being reminded of Longfellow's inspired lines so exquisitely sung by the Hutchinsons : " And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior." I find it not easy to come away from that steepleharmony to this city of turmoil and traffic. I will...

...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown ; Thrice consumed and...

...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY. 1842. [The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter...

...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found — Still grasping in his hand...twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; Ai.d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " We are sorry...

...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried mes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression,...elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal ami fift ; Ai d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " • We are...

...cold breath of the frost, he falls — yea, nobly falls — into the treacherous snow-drift, and " There in the twilight, cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! " From the summit of human attainment on earth, he had gone to dwell in the blessed heaven of God....

...was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, — Excelsior ! QUSSTIONS. How ia ambition represented in thia piece ? 1. What was the derica on the banner of the...

...was the peasant's last good-night; A voice replied, far up the height, — Excelsior ! 7. A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was...That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene...