 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1879 - 458 pagina’s
...saying, — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Job reckoned not that man is incapable of judging the meaning of God's dark providences ; that within... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of carea Upon the great world's altar-staira That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. GOD AND NATURE. 323 I venture to suggest that, by resolute firmness in declaring that nature is not... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. I venture to suggest that, by resolute firmness in declaring that nature is not God, the strife between... | |
 | 1889 - 84 pagina’s
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. " So careful of the type ?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, ' ' A thousand... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1879 - 726 pagina’s
...in the dark (Arist. !'<!.,'. 691 ; Gen. xxvii. 21 ; Isa. lix. 10 ; cf. Rom. i. 21, x. 6—8) :— " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — Tennyton. 8 He means to imply that the necessity for this groping was their own fault — was due... | |
 | 1880 - 138 pagina’s
...but a cry. I falter where I firmly trod. And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. This truth came borne with bier and pall, I felt it when I sorrowed most, 'Tis better to have loved... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1880 - 356 pagina’s
...bear : " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — (" IN- MEMORIAM," liv.-lv.) Turn we then from the struggling, (&.)_The Glorious veerjng p0et to... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 814 pagina’s
.... Bom. i. 21, x. 6—8) :— " I stretch lame hands of fnith, and grope And Anther dust and chuff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."— Tennyson. " He means to imply that the necessity for this groping wag their own fault— was due to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pagina’s
...bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God....is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. ***»*< Dip down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year, delaying long: Thou doest expectant nature... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1881 - 466 pagina’s
...one, — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." H.— JH RHODES, ESQ., OF CLEVELAND. To thousands of men and women the words " Garfield at Hiram "... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
