...equal truth and beauty, does Goethe put into the mouth of the earth-spirit the words : — ' 'Tis thai at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou see'st Him by.' Our first parents heard the voice of the Lord God in the garden ; and they, no doubt miraculously,...

...what is changeable divided from what is unchangeable ? Does that Earth-Spirit's speech in Faust: ' 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, ' And weave for God the Garment thou see's! him by;' or that other thousand-times repeated speech of the Magician, Shakspeare: 'And like...

...visible Garment of God.' " In Being's floods, ¡n Action's storm, I walk »mi work, above, beueaih, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; Л seizing and giving The li si of i he Living: 'Tis thus at Ihe roaring Loom of Time I ply. And...

...what is changeable divided from what is unchangeable ? Does that Earth-Spirit's speech in Faust : ' 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, ' And weave for God the Garment thou see'st him by ,' or that other thousand-times repeated speech of the Magician, Shakspeare : ' And like the baseless...

...our eyes. The beauty of this image has not escaped Goethe, who makes his Earthspirit in Faust say : " At the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." The LXX. translation of this verse is at first sight unaccountably different, though in sense it harmonises...

...secret of Nature ! 1 IN Being's flood — in Action'* etorro, I work and weave — above— beneath! Work and weave In endless motion, Birth and Death,...ocean, A seizing and giving The Fire of the Living : T is thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply. And weave for GOD the garment thou eee'st him by !'...

...! ' IK Being's flood — in Action's storm, 1 work and weuve — above — beneath ! Work and wenve In endless motion, Birth and Death, An infinite ocean, A seizing and giving The Fire of the Living : T Is thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for GOD the garment thou see'st him by 1'...

...endlesa motion, Hirtli and Dealh, An infinite ocean, A aeizlng and giving The Fire of the Living: T IB thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for GOD the garment thoa see'nt him by !' For the spirit, moving in curves and infinitely varied tones among the many-hued...

...the confines of both : — " In Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath. Work and weave, in endless motion ! Birth and Death,...ocean : A seizing and giving The fire of the living: 'Tisthus at the roaring loom of Time I ply. And weave for Godthe garraeutth on seest him by." After...

...Dissolving in doubt All matter, throughout The wide realms of touch and of sight. APPENDIX. APPENDIX A. ' 'Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou see'st him by." — GOETHE, in Sartor Retartm. APPENDIX B. " The Ichthyosaurus, sometimes more than 30 feet long, had...