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Updated: June 28, 2025
I fear not, but if perchance thou fearest, Rei, depart hence and leave me to the task alone. "'Nay, I said. 'I also am instructed, and I go not. But I say to thee that this is unholy. "Then Meriamun spoke no more but lifting up her hands she held them heavenwards, and so for a while she stood, her face fixed, as was the face of dead Hataska.
"Yet, when she comes it will be for very love of me, her lover, and for love of the night and the scent of the dawn, for the stillness of the dusk, and the longing to lay her pure whiteness at rest within my arms." And then he threw his hands heavenwards with a great cry. "Allah, be praised! Oh Allah, unto thee I give thanks."
It made one think of Hans von Bülow's mot when, in speaking of a certain famous pianist, he said: 'He plays Beethoven with velocity and Czerny with expression. But to hear Sarasate play romantic music, his own 'Spanish Dances' for instance, was all like glorious birdsong and golden sunshine, a lark soaring heavenwards! "You ask about my compositions?
Do you not understand that with one word of hope from you I can live on?" Sabine raised her head heavenwards. "Work!" she exclaimed. "Work and hope, for I swear that I will never wed other than you." Here the voice of the old lady interrupted the lovers. "Still lingering here!" she cried, in a voice like a trumpet call.
There is an old saying, 'He that can tell how often he has thought of God in a day has thought of Him too seldom. I dare say many of us would have little difficulty in counting on the fingers of one hand, and perhaps not needing them all, the number of times in which, to-day, our thoughts have gone heavenwards.
But, whoever should paint it, God certainly made it must have been the comment of any one who caught a glimpse of that little figure vanishing heavenwards up that stair, like an Assumption of Fra Angelico's that is, any one interested in art and angels.
And presently as he stood, his broad back set to the bole of a tree, his blue eyes lifted heavenwards brimful of dreams, he brake forth into a song he had made, lying sleepless upon his bed to do it.
Man does not live by bread alone; but he cannot live without bread. But through it all I never ceased to keep my eyes fixed heavenwards.
Answered the gaoler, "Yes! whilst the blacksmith was hammering his irons, he ceased not to look up heavenwards and say, 'Is not the whole Creation and the Empire thereof His?" Rejoined Al-Hajjaj, "Dost thou not know that He, on whom he called in thy presence, delivered him in thine absence?" And the tongue of the case recited on this theme,
There is buoyancy and glad consciousness of elevation in all the self-sacrifice of love, which dilates and lifts the spirit as the light gas smoothes out the limp folds of silk in a balloon, and sends it heavenwards, a full sphere. Only service or surrender, which is thus cheerful because it is the natural expression of love, is true service in God's sight.
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