SAYINGS OF THE SAGES, BROOKS

Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893, Writer, Episcopal Bishop.

"Live deeply, earnestly, in the present, and the
spirit of all the ages shall reveal itself to you."

Phillips Brooks was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1855. He published a number of volumes of sermons and meditations but is most famous for his hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

Thanks, Rev. Brooks, here are a few lines in your honor:

Each life a link within Earth's chain, A spirit clothed in form,
In this eternal now to move, With other spirit's born.
And triune man is part within, This integrated whole,
With ever ancient, ever new, Fountains of the soul.

A spirit essence moving in, This human earthbound shell,
An inner knowing taking form, That living manners tell.
To pour its radiance forth to all, Like rays from morning sun,
On Earth, a spirit clothed in form, With all the whole as one.

In line with soul's desire to move, In daily harmony,
Attuned to earth and planes beyond, A mobile spirit free.
In unity, its strength combines, To reach a common goal,
In love and service walking in, The footprints of the soul.

Suzie-Q