 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...CENTURIES. Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch Innie hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped clilf ami quarried stone She cries, " A thousand types... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 376 pages
...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,...dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of AH, And faintly trust the larger hope." But the Doctrine of Retribution itself, viewed as we have viewed... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1875 - 172 pages
...fearful spirit of mistrust, mingled with sincere desires to know what the truth is, and where. " They stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff; and call To what they feel is Lord of all ; And faintly trust the larger hope." • But all this means that these cannot... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 374 pages
...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, and grope, And gather dnst and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of All, And faintly trust the larger hope." But the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...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. LVI. ,,So careful of the type?'' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ,,a thousand... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 pages
...mother's name. CHAPTER IV. " I falter where I firmly trod. I stretch lame hands of faith ; and grope Aud gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all; And faintly trust the larger hope." In Memoriam. no doubt, pass on to another grave, I thought; but I soon grew tired of waiting, as I... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs Which slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands...of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and ;all To what I feel is lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. TRNNYSON : In Memariam. J Manners^... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...often brings but one to bear, strength, SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. 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 chafr, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. "So careful of the... | |
 | Hugh Junor Browne - 1876 - 474 pages
...on which they were accustomed to lean for years giving way, one after another, and leaving them to " Stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff," without any prospect of comfort in time, or any grounds for hope in eternity, will readily acknowledge... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 836 pages
...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, " I stretch...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Surely when tho ages are thus bridged over by feelings at once so profound and so permanent, \ve may... | |
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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... 
