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At last the day came and her poem was finished. It was written on a leaflet of paper heavily flecked with gold-dust. With her father and attendants and some of the Court officials, she proceeded to the bank of the roaring torrent and raising up her heart to Heaven, she read the poem she had composed, aloud, lifting it heavenwards in her two hands.
And as if in solemn protest of the political barriers, which were set up in the course of ages, these two obelisks, the one now in Scotland, the other in England, continue to point heavenwards, each bearing upon their faces the same grand old Northumbrian language, which is the mother-tongue of all English speaking people.
Robert put his hand in his pocket and drew out some silver. The man took one piece looked at it turned it over put it in his pocket, and led the way up the stair. Robert followed and followed and followed. He came out of stone walls upon an airy platform whence the spire ascended heavenwards.
Then the old woman leant towards her, and the two laid hold either of each, while Sharrkan raised his head Heavenwards and prayed Allah that the belle might beat the beldam. Sharrkan laughed till he fell back upon the ground.
His huge clamping right hand crushed George's, while the left described an arc heavenwards. Came a throaty gurgle, a careless swing of the arm, and "Be lay loike a warrior takin' his rist, Wid his "I misrimimber th' tail-ind av ut," sighed Sergeant Slavin, "'Tis toime we turned in." In silence they re-entered the detachment.
Then the chariot began to roll heavenwards towards the moon, and as they all gazed with tearful eyes at the receding Princess, the dawn broke, and in the rosy light of day the moon-chariot and all in it were lost amongst the fleecy clouds that were now wafted across the sky on the wings of the morning wind. Princess Moonlight's letter was carried to the Palace.
Some people are vacillating, and one hardly knows which way the scale will turn. Whereas some are predestined angels, and fly Heavenwards naturally, and do what they will." "Oh, my lord, and why should you not be of the predestined? Whilst there is a day left whilst there is an hour there is hope!" says the fond matron.
The whole of the Christian experience of earth evidently aims towards that as its goal, and is interpreted by that as its end. What a contrast that is to the low and transient aims which so many of us have! The lives of many men go creeping along the surface when they might spring heavenwards. My friend! which is it to be with you?
The cuneiform records of Nabopolassar relate how the god Marduk commanded him 'to lay the foundation of the Tower of Babylon ... firm on the bosom of the underworld while its top should stretch heavenwards." The first impression of the Kasr is that of a shelled town or mined flour mill, where nothing remains but the lower walls of buildings.
The prospect of another wait chilled Wilton to the marrow. The wind had now grown simply freezing, and it came through his thin suit and roamed about all over him in a manner that caused him exquisite discomfort. He began to jump to keep himself warm. He was leaping heavenwards for the hundredth time, when, chancing to glance to one side, he perceived Mary again returning.
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