 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...  The National Review - Side 382redigeret af - 1855Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 sider
...brings but one to bear." Considering this, and the secret meaning that might seem to lie under it, " 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,... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 sider
...Bible to show that we must all of us, in our solitary thinking, arrive at last where we shall say : — I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1868 - 400 sider
...Him." (Job xxii. 8.) So it will always be in approaching God in our present fallen state. " I stumble where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs, That lead through darkness up to God." But these are the approaches to... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.), Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1869 - 140 sider
...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...altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God:' — he would not, so far as I am concerned, have improved his picture by telling us that the stairs... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1869 - 144 sider
...careless of the single life; ' That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And rinding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear;...altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God:'— he would not, so far as I am concerned, have improved his picture by telling us that the stairs in... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 842 sider
...lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of t !«• single life ; " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, •• I str tch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 sider
...of the type she seems, So careless of tlw single life ; " That I, considering everywhere Her seen i meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds,...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I str tch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 750 sider
...Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of th« single life ; " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of carea Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I str toh lame hands... | |
 | 1870 - 748 sider
...Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of th« single life ; " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...And finding that of fifty seeds, She often brings bat one to bear, "I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 sider
...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...where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of care* Upon the great world's altar-stairs •' That slope thro' darkness up to God, ') I stretch lame... | |
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