... HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION. A PROBLEM IN A NOVEL. AGNES WYLDE. ' 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND MARSTON, MII.TON...

...CHAPTEE XVI. THE DAWN OF LIGHT. " I hold it truth, with one who sings To one clear harp in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." TENNYSON. THE next morning Charlie awoke in no enviable frame of mind. He had a dull headache and a...

...they tail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. • I. I HKl.n it trtitl), with him wlio sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Hut who shall so forecast the years And find...

...venerable men, may become our history, as it was that of those to whom St. John referred. " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." II. We ought to go from strength to strength, Christian progress is a duty. We are solemnly bound to...

...it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain ty) match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears 1 Let Love clasp Grief...

...to a certain point — say as far up stream as Woolwich. A HEADER OF TENNYSON.— In the lin« — 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones — the laureate certainly refers to Longfellow, and not to Dante, as suggested by one of our contemporaries,...

...truth of the whole revelation." In a fragment on " Sin," there is a beautiful explanation of how " Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." " It cannot be from a necessity in the nature of things, but must be according to God's own purpose...

...words as " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs " in reference to the race, and " Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things " in reference to the individual man. For in the light of revelation we see the ' increasing purpose'...

...whole — for the offect would be mr notor,ous — but part by part, poem by poem. How nobly it begins "I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Here, too, is to be found the poets thought on progress. Let the bells ring out the false, the feud...

...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. "I [hold] it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNYSON. Who's come Back ? 203 CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TURNED. "Once to every man and nation, comes...