Halleck's New English Literature · Chapter 108Conclusion

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Three distinctive moral influences in English literature specially impress us,—the call to strenuous manhood:—

"…this thing is God, To be man with thy might,"

the increasing sympathy with all earth's children:—

"Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call, Ye to each other make,"

and the persistent expression of Anglo-Saxon faith. As we pause in our study, we may hear in the twentieth-century song of Alfred Noyes, the echo of the music from the loom of the Infinite Weaver:—

"Under the breath of laughter, deep in the tide of tears, I hear the loom of the Weaver that weaves the Web of Years."[18]