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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... "
Dante, "the Central Man of All the World": A Course of Lectures Delivered ... - Page 14
by John Theodore Slattery - 1920 - 283 pages
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 57

1861 - 878 pages
...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"...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Two Volumes in One

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...falter wnere 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...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 240 pages
...falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs LTV. I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 LV. ' So careful of the type ?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand...
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The Christian spectator. New ser. [of The Monthly Christian ..., Volumes 3-4

1862 - 1006 pages
...my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; 1 1 stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.1 It may be said that this is but a passing mood, incidental to the strongest faith. Perhaps so...
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Parish Papers

Norman Macleod - 1863 - 338 pages
...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...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." With deep sympathy for all who thus feel the weight ind pain of the subject, and who hope against hope,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 28

1863 - 382 pages
...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...Lord of all, • And faintly trust the larger hope." Carlyle's Gospel of Negation, with its sincerities, chivalries, immensities and eternities, may do...
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Poems: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; 1 stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. IV. " So careful of the type ? " but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 28

1863 - 380 pages
...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...
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Woman and Her Era, Volume 2

Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham - 1864 - 484 pages
...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...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." But here is a soul of different temper to this — a man who has left the shadow of doubt far below...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1865 - 496 pages
...persecution of one who was both bold and humble enough' to be able to say (with Britain's Laureate), — " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather...is Lord of All, And faintly trust the larger Hope." Our chief interest in the story of Bayle lies in the fact that he, like Sir William Hamilton, recognized...
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