...seas. "But you and all the kind of Christ Are ignorant and brave, And you have wars you hardly win "I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. "Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea,...

...one word of assurance, he will go again. But only this, as she stands by his side, will she say, " I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet, And the sea rises higher." And there that day among the reeds under the promise only that the night was going to be blacker than...

...Our Lady appears to him. Out of the mouth of the Mother of God all that the broken king hears is: " I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher." Armed with this message Alfred once more seeks to rally the native chiefs. The three men to whom the...

...on high, Under warm westland grass to lie, Shall we come home at last ? ' ' And she answers : " ' 1 tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea,...

...Christendom, the hero is an "oft-defeated king," Alfred, who hears from the mouth of the Mother of God, "I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher." And the principal item of Poems, which is "Lepanto," celebrates the surprise of Christendom at its...

...given by "Winnie" just before the battle of Britain and emanating from that cheery philosopher, GK, / tell you naught for your comfo-rt Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher, for although I believe that the problem is a complex one, that does not lead me to despair, for I firmly...

...the better. But seldom were they forthcoming. Instead, more briefly and rudely worded, one heard : I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the seas rise higher. The night of 29 June was particularly bad. The glass having fallen had apparently...

...jeremiad, a prophet's warning, and an old man's gloom: I tell you nought for your comfort Yea, nought for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet, And the sea rises higher.23 Despite his lapse into melodrama, no one in the audience that day could have doubted the...

...Montanism, seeking to turn expectation into new reality. E.2. Revelation 7.9-17: Naught for your Comfort? I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. These words from GK Chesterton's poem 'Ballad of the White Horse' were used by Trevor Huddleston to...

...haunted the Church ever since. In the article he quoted GK Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse": I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for...the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher "The Church sleeps on," he wrote. "The Church sleeps on — though it occasionally talks in its sleep...