 For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.  Proceedings ... - Page 398by New York State Bar Association - 1902Full view - About this book
 | John Heyl Vincent - Chautauquas - 1885 - 328 pages
...Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear; For age is opportunity no less Than youth, though in another dress; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.' " The entire Chautauqua movement is based upon the following propositions : — i. The whole of life... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...the treasures of the universe ! But age is possibility no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. LONGFELLOW. JFault0 of 31anuarp 14. STUDY to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities... | |
 | Stray thoughts, E L - 1885 - 118 pages
...vexations which brood upon the Earth, but which cannot rise above it into that purer air. — Beecher. 3. AND as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. Longfellow. 4. GOD fights the battles of a will resigned. S. YET why should I murmur? God knows what... | |
 | Mrs. Molesworth - 1885 - 306 pages
...grass that bordered the highway, burst into loud and despairing sobs. CHAPTER XII. GOOD-BYE TO " US." " And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Morituri Salutamus. BY slow degrees their sobs exhausted themselves. Pamela leant her head against... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 184 pages
...Wilson. THE glory is in the East in the morning, in the West in the afternoon. Alexander Smith. FOR as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. Longfellow. "TAE.E good heed, my dear son, not to think that when I leave you I shall be nowhere, or... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 pages
...something, would we but begin ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. A BOOK OF SONNETS THKEE FRIENDS OF MINE. L Written September 5, 1874. WHEN I remember them, those friends... | |
 | Mrs. Molesworth - Brothers and sisters - 1886 - 276 pages
...grass that bordered the highway, burst into loud and despairing sobs. CHAPTEE XII. GOOD-BYE TO "US." " And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Morituri Salutamus. BY slow degrees their sobs exhausted themselves. Pamela leant her head against... | |
 | Education - 1890 - 686 pages
...of creation there is growth. " And age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." And so with this number we send to our many readers the compliments of the holidays. May the year '91,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 838 pages
...the characteristic verse — " For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." On his seventy-fourth birthday, 27 Feb., 1881, he wrote in his diary : " I am surrounded by roses and... | |
 | Owen Street - Sermons, American - 1887 - 430 pages
...oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself; though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." But no poet has dared to say as much for the eleventh hour as is said in this parable. It says what... | |
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