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" If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... "
The Book of Good Cheer: A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts - Page 10
by Edwin Osgood Grover - 1909 - 64 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 114

1914 - 1066 pages
...did not have in mind a more serious aspect of this same mood when he wrote the fa miliar lines, — If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. Even Stevenson called his happiness a 'great task'; and it was no wonder For him, and for many, it...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 62

1888 - 928 pages
...contains a special philosophy of life. It is entitled The Celestial Surgeon, and begins thus : — " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness." That is what the pursuit of happiness becomes to some of us, — a task, to be persevered in with resolute...
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The Medical World, Volume 18

1900 - 514 pages
...See adv. by Messrs. IO Woodruff & Co., and send for literature and samples. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...skies Books and my food and summer rain Knocked on iny sullen heart in vain ; Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or,...
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Confederate Veteran, Volume 30

1922 - 496 pages
...sale will please notify Mrs. St. John Alison Lawton, 41 South Battery, Charleston, SC, stating price. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food and summer rain...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...walks the streets ; and those wives and mothers, say, will those be you? THE CELESTIAL SURGEON TFI have faltered more or less •*• In my great task...glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes 1 lave moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 35

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 pages
...looking for it, so that at the end he may say that he has not sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." This temperament in many men of a different race would surely lead to a life spent in the pursuit of...
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In the Hour of Silence: a Book of Daily Meditations for a Year

Alexander Smellie - 1899 - 416 pages
...which is mine when I am in it, the King of it who supplies all my need out of His riches in glory. " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face " — nay, the Ifs must go. I have magnified trifling obstructions. I have talked of duty as insipid....
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The Medical Dial: A Monthly Record of Medicine & Surgery, Volume 2

1900 - 342 pages
...Dial should read acid, arseniosi gr. Yť, in stead of acid, arseniosi gr. i. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; < >, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choo'se Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin,...
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Round the Year with the Poets: A Compilation of Nature Poems

Martha Capps Oliver - 1900 - 458 pages
...anywhere), Write one old epitaph in grace-lit words: " Such things look fairer that he sojourned here." If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. (UoBerf fioui's gtf etxnfion OcfcBer Whose heart by love was never quickened, Whose eyes were never...
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Hidden Wells of Comfort

Louis Albert Banks - 1900 - 312 pages
...good cheer under most trying experiences, sings some very pretty lines illustrating our thought : — "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...I have moved among my race, And shown no glorious morning-face; If beams from happy, human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food,...
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