steps (n.)
- companion
- companionway
- escalier
- foresight
- foresightedness
- forethought
- incline
- insurance
- landing
- measures
- precaution
- protection
- providence
- provision
- ramp
- safeguard
- staircase
- stairs
- stairway
- stile
Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,
Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,
Show to his eye an image of the pangs
Which it hath witnessed,—render back an echo
Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep
Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
Who track the steps of glory to the grave.
Till morning fair
Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.
Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the attribute of God.
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share;
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great ammiral were but a wand,
He walk'd with to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle.
Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go;
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we 'll tread.
Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took;
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,
And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
