Part 60 (1/2)
”Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused, Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry At Herod's b.l.o.o.d.y-hunting slaughtermen.”
--_Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3_.
Smite the Rock 247 H.T.
”That G.o.d would move And strike the hard, hard rock, and thence Sweet in their utmost bitterness, Would issue tears of penitence.”
--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.
The Snare of the Fowler. 106 S.A.
”Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim; But in the sight of one whose plumes are full, In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged.”
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
Son of Man. 246 L.J.
”That claimest with a cunning face Those rights the true, true Son of man doth own By Love's authority.”
--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.
Sparks Which Fly Upward. 186 S.A.
”But the troubles which he is born to are as sparks which fly upward, not as flames burning to the nethermost h.e.l.l.”
--_Ruskin, Notes_.
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Star of Bethlehem. 41 L.J.
”Some astronomers believe that they have found the great star around which the whole universe of stars revolves: whether that be true or not, it is undoubtedly true that the Star of Bethlehem is the center of this world's spiritual astronomy.”
--_Theodore L. Cuyler_.
The Stars Fought in Their Courses. 58 T.J.
”Promptings from heaven and h.e.l.l, as if the stars Fought in their courses for a fate to be.”
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
A Still Small Voice. 124 T.J.
”A still small voice spake unto me.”
--_Tennyson, The Two Voices_.
The Stirring of the Waters. 167 L.J.
”To-day a golden pinion stirred The world's Bethesda pool, And I believed the song I heard Nor put my heart to school; And through the rainbows of the dream I saw the gates of Eden gleam.”
--_Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower_.
The Stone Rolled Away. 297 L.J.
”Pitiless walls of gray, Gathered around us, a growing tomb From which it seemed not death or doom Could roll the stone away.”
--_Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island._
Tables of Stone 207,212 H.T.