 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 pàgines
...'Mir reaper's song among the sheaves. Vet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought. The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er...shade. And were this life the utmost span. The only end an aim of man. Better the toil of fields like these, Than waking dream and slothful rast. Bnt life,... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pàgines
...The reaper's song among tbe sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task Is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er...the utmost span, The only end and aim of man, Better tbe toll of fields like these Than waging dream and slothful ease. But life, though falling like our... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 356 pàgines
...reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great thought. The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done." WniTTIEK. I HAVE come to entertain very serious doubts about my "orthodoxy" on the subject of doing... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pàgines
...The reaper's song among the sheaves; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done I Possessions vanish, and opinions change, And passion holds a fluctuating seat; But. subject neither... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pàgines
...The reaper's song among the sheaves Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done ! The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed, The fountain and the noonday shade. And were this life the... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pàgines
...service whence Conies, day hy dfty, the recompense — The hope, the trust, the purpose staid, Tiie fountain, and the noonday shade. And were this life the utmost span, The on'v end and aim of man, Better the toil of fields like these, Thnn waking dream and slothful ease.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pàgines
...The reaper's song among the sheave* Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done 1 The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed, The fountain and the noonday shade. And were this life the... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 540 pàgines
...task is wrought, In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoever is willed is done! And ours the grateful service whence...Comes day by day the recompense; The hope, the trust, tl*e purpose stayed,. The fountain and the neon-day shade; And were this life, the utmost span, The... | |
 | John W. Berry - 1871 - 236 pàgines
...sickle, in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear on summer's eves The Reaper's song among the sheaves; But ours the grateful service, whence Comes day by day the recompense, The hope, the purpose staid, The fountain, and the noon-day shade. And were this life its utmost span, The only end... | |
 | Theron Brown - 1873 - 496 pàgines
...CHAPTER XXII. DISCOVERIES AND FULFILLMENTS. - When our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done-" WHITTIEK. "Ever from toil to rest, Where a rim of sea-like splendor runs, Where the days bury their... | |
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It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's, song among the sheaves, Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er... 
