 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...  Words of Reconciliation - Página 1251888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1850 - 602 páginas
...Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my wait of cares Upon the great world'» altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch... | |
 | 1851 - 598 páginas
...peace. " And falling, with my weight of care, Upon the great world's altar-stair, "Which slopes through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope ; " and alas ! but how "faintly trust the larger hope ! " This battle of life, — these victories of sin,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 478 páginas
...at the shadow of eternal evil. So careful of the type, Nature seems, so careless of the single life, "That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, Must falter, where I firmly trod." But in this matter we tread firmly, only when we walk by Divine... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 268 páginas
...fringed ivith fire."— xv. " And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day" — xlix. " 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." — liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground"... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 páginas
...fringed with fire."—xv. "And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day."—xlix. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's Altar stain That slope through darkness up to God."—liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground."—xi.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 páginas
...John Chapman, 1853. t Him, infer aliot, we may presume to have been referred to by the most recent, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hnnds of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | 1853 - 442 páginas
...book we learned, Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned To black and brown, on kindred brows. * * # * I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 páginas
...book we learned, Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned To black and brown, on kindred brows. * # * * I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 422 páginas
...teachers around thee and thy life folded in a blessed sympathy with Nature. " Considering every where Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear." DISCIPLINE. We have no special theory to advance but shall endeavor to show from gleanings in the field... | |
 | 1854 - 710 páginas
...Nature lends such evil dreamaî So careful of the type she seems, ï-'o careless of the single life ; That I considering everywhere Her secret meaning in...but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And ¿ailing with my weight of carea Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up... | |
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