255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

The still, sad music of humanity.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn