 Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garments' hem : Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them.  Verses, 1889-1896 - Page 258by Rudyard Kipling - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1902 - 864 pages
...reverence for that brave and pure soul hushed her heart. She could only think, in Kipling's words : Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garments'...feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. She was so sunk in reverie, so busy with her own emotions, that she neither noticed the Swede's departure... | |
 | Emily Handasyde Buchanan, Handasyde - 1903 - 232 pages
...spoke of with Mr. 141 Bampfylde's features, and the bright eyes of the boy Sir Joshua had painted. Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry,...know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see .... The cry of the earthly children is at all times a pitiful sound, but the ghosts of the children... | |
 | Margaret Crosby Munn - 1903 - 304 pages
...whom a poet says — " here his voice fell, as 1 had heard it fall before when he was moved deeply : "Thy feet have trod so near to God, I may not follow them." 166 THE PATH OF STARS He says, too: "Enough for me in dreams to see And touch thy garment's hem." Yes,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1905 - 234 pages
...dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know! Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I may not find Thee quick and kind, Nor meet Thee till I die. Yet may I look 'with heart unshook On blow... | |
 | Henry Harrison Brown - 1907 - 136 pages
...gone The greatest joy of joys shall be — the joy of going on. Kipling says of the Ideal : — Our face Is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry,...die. Enough for me In dreams to see And touch Thy garment's hem; Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. But all these poets fail to... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 420 pages
...dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know! Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, 1 may not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die. Yet may I look with heart unshook On... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 390 pages
...dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that lovely Truth The careless angels know ! Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, 1 may not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die. Yet may I look with heart unshook On... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 404 pages
...internal rimes : that of Mr. Kipling's True Romance. The form may be represented by the scheme Wctidde : " Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry,...die : Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garment's hem : Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them." The normal English stanza... | |
 | Nobelstiftelsen - 1909 - 226 pages
...trânaden efter ett sokt, ett aldrig hunnet ideal: Enough for me in dreams to see And touch thy garment's hem; Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. \ Hvad demie forfattares lifsâskâdning angâr, sa àr den fàrgad af en gammaltestamentlig eller... | |
 | P. Pirie - 1909 - 332 pages
...•'•• ,»>** f -*•£*«. 2 -^., */* ^ THE END Enough for me in dreams to see And touch thy garment's hem ; Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. RUDYARD KIPLING. To the True Romance. end of the river-road, for those who are handicapped by house-boats,... | |
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