| 1860 - 890 Seiten
...crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry." (p. 77.) " I falter where I firmly trod ; And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, "I strctch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 Seiten
...often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, That slope through darkness up to God; And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...deep for deliverance may come as from any within the Land of Promise. To those, who, like the poet, " Stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I trust is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope," the heart searchings of the In Memoriam are... | |
| 1861 - 878 Seiten
...deep for deliverance may come as from any within the lAnd of Promise. To those, who, like the poet, " Stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I trust is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope," the heart searchings of the " In Memoriam"... | |
| William Thomson - 1861 - 456 Seiten
...science, we might well make the poet's words our own — " I falter where I firmly trod, And fall with all my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God."' But it is the very " weight of cares " that oppresses us, that should lead us to a higher truth. And... | |
| 1861 - 538 Seiten
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling, with my weight of cares, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
| 1862 - 1006 Seiten
...weakness, where surely the Christian gifts of strength, and knowledge, and trust, are most needed. ' I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; 1 1 stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 Seiten
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; 1 stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
| 1863 - 380 Seiten
...falter where I firmly trod, And, tolling 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 chaflj and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Carlyle's Gospel... | |
| Norman Macleod - 1863 - 338 Seiten
...infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. * * * * " 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... | |
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