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Foot by foot the water gains on the rocks beside the channels, on the fringes of the boulders, on the stony shores, and covers the stretches of mud: The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pale ablution round earth's human shore. But they do not escape without defilement On the surface of the tide, when it ebbs from the mudbanks, there gathers an iridescent slime.
He would also have had another manner of cap of me, but I had none but priestlike, such as his own was.
"Help me that I may stand, to greet the day!" at last the patriarch said. "I cannot rise, alone." Stern and the girl, each taking an arm, got him to his feet. He stood there facing the east, priestlike in venerable and solemn worship of the coming sun. "Give me each a hand, my children," he commanded. In Stern's hand, strong, corded, toil-worn, he laid the girl's.
Instinctively the priestlike worship of the sun, old when the world was still in infancy, surged back to him again after the long, lost centuries of darkness and oblivion. "The sun! The sun!" he cried, his voice triumphant as a trumpet-call. Tears coursed from his blind eyes; but on his lips a smile of joy unutterable was set. "The sun! At last! The " Stern caught his feeble body as he fell.
The passage referred to the Roman gladiatorial shows, and to the philosophic detachment by which Marcus Aurelius was able to see and yet not to see them; and the whole book was the spiritual story of a young Roman's soul, a priestlike artistic temperament, born in the haunted twilight between the setting sun of pagan religion and philosophy and the dawn of the Christian idea.
Again he struck his priestlike attitude and invoked me to follow. "The fire upon the altar waits," he repeated, solemnly. Suddenly he broke into a shrill laugh and ran like a deer in the direction of the forest that stretched up the slopes of the mountain. The mate's face, thrust over the rail as I drew alongside the schooner, plainly bespoke his utter bewilderment.
"Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." While he lay on his sick bed in Rome, he said: "I feel the flowers growing over me."
Well for them that their high place is reserved in another world, and that Milton recognised "obdurate pride" as the chief mark of Satan. May 9. The words of Keats concerning the ocean's "priestlike task of pure ablution" often come to my mind in this deserted Cornish bay.
They should give out their books as the priest his sacrament, should wear sacred vestments, and bear about with them the priestlike aura, as of divine incarnations of the great spirit of Truth and Art in whose temples they are ministrants. The next step to this ideal ministry is to have our books given out to us by women.
Edward also was absent, getting licked into shape at school; but to him the loss was nothing. With his stern practical bent he wouldn't have seen any sense in it to recall one of his favourite expressions. To Harold, however, for whom the gods had always cherished a special tenderness, it was granted, not only to witness, but also, priestlike, to feed the sacred fire itself.
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