Science in Song, Or, Nature in Numbers |
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66 NOTE amber Arcturus astronomer Bathybius beauty behold behold the Sun blazing Book of Job bosom breath bright burn carbon centuries Coggia's Comet comet creed crown currents electrical deep doubt dream Dudley dumb earth electric eyes fable face fair faith fame fire flames flash force fuse gaze glance gleam gloom glow golden grand gray crags heart heart of oak heat heaven hundred icy ball incandescence JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER kindle king legend light man's marvel metal Midas mystery mystic Nature's Neptune night o'er Owed to Coggia's planet poet pride prism rainbow rapture realm round Science shape shine silence singlish slime solar soldier's art song soul spectrum spell splendor starry story substances Sun's sung sweet telescope telescopic eyes tell thee thou art thought thousand To-day trophies truth Twas twere Unerring law vapors vengeful hate violet ray visible spectrum William Huggins wonder
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Page 130 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 117 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 117 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow in the sky ! • So was it, when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So let it be, when I grow old, Or let me die. • The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.* WORDSWORTH.
Page 124 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 125 - He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.
Page 112 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 120 - Rude as their ships was navigation then; No useful compass or meridian known; Coasting, they kept the land within their ken, And knew no North but when the Pole-star shone.
Page 129 - I trust I have not wasted breath : I think we are not wholly brain, Magnetic mockeries ; not in vain. Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death; Not only cunning casts in clay : Let Science prove we are, and then What matters Science unto men, At least to me ? I would not stay. Let him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the greater ape, But I was born to other things.
Page 128 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
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