 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...thy sake ! TO DUTY. STERN Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; ]STor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy...footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; Aud the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power,... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in tlic quietness of thought Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires...on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! Thou dost preserve the stars from... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that evor is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. VI Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. VII. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...and giving grace even to its sternest aspects, has been finely caught by one of our poets : — ' ' Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." One of the finest examples in early scriptural history of this fidelity to duty — fidelity embracing... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver I yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know wo anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! * I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. 6. DEATH OF THE YOUNG AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose18'2 blown from its parent... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble " Ode to Duty," he says : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. " Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must... | |
 | Arthur Henfrey - 1867 - 502 pages
...poets, has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble "Ode to Duty," he says:— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong." Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must ever... | |
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Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... 
