...where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull...dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks be was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. This is the ground of the poet's anticipation...

...but which only such a man and such a poet could have crystallised into four such perfect lines : " Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man,...to die, And Thou hast made him — Thou art just" Thus musing, Mr. Cardross followed upstairs towards the magnificent nursery, which had been prepared...

...orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo ! thy foot la on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave...he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; Ami thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood,...

...where we cannot prove; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade: Thou madest life in man and brute, Thou madest death, and lo ! Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made. " Thou art both human and divine; The highest, holiest manhood Thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how...

...which only such a man and such a poet could have crystallised into four such perfect lines : " Tliou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he...to die, And Thou hast made him — Thou art just." Thus musing, Mr. Cardross followed upstairs towards the magnificent nursery, which had been prepared...

...posse mori. The voice of conscience, which is the voice of God in the world, says everywhere, — " Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die." But the postulate or presumption is not strong enough to support our hopes of existence hereafter,...

...sense. Both are to be tested and their testimony confirmed or their errors corrected. For example : "/Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest...to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just." In this verse Tennyson gives expression to what is the nearly universal instinct of mankind. This is...

...where we cannot prove ! Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and, lo ! Thy foot Is on the skull...us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; Ho thinks he was not made to die ; And Thou hast made him : Thou art just. Thou seomest human and...

...inattentive readers may, and often do, fail to reach the meaning, at once argumentative and devout : " Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man,...made to die ; And Thou hast made him, Thou art just." The logic of the strain is close and condensed ; almost with the air about it of an enthymeme,1 with...

...where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull...made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. ^ IV. B Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we...