 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pàgines
...I have, Nor works my faith to prove; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar;...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O brothers! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pàgines
...have, Nor works my faith to prove : I can but give the gilts he gave, And plead his love for love. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...islands lift Their fronded palms in air : I only know I can not drift Beyond his love and care. ' O brothers ! if my faith is vain, And thou, O Lord ! by whom... | |
 | 1872 - 262 pàgines
...have, Nor works my faith to prove : I can but give the gifts he gave, And plead his love, for love. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. THE OTHER WORLD. 193 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air : I only know I cannot... | |
 | 1872 - 264 pàgines
...gifts he gave, And plead his love, for love. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar : I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me. that my feet may gain The... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pàgines
...lonely rambles:— ' I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies.' ' And so beside the silent...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A PARTY was made up for Boxing-Day. Some proposed spending... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pàgines
...have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pàgines
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies. " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. " And so beside the silent sea 1 wait the muffled, oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore."... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pàgines
...have, Nor works my faith to prove : I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY child is lying on my knees ; •"•*- The signs of heaven... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1874 - 158 pàgines
...not gone on, wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care ! ' It is not said that the disciples went off this time with any such misgivings, any such reassuring... | |
 | 1875 - 444 pàgines
...voices gone, For vanished smiles I long; But God hath led my dear ones on, And He can do no wrong. I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise,...only know I cannot drift , Beyond His love and care. —Whittier. WRECKED. THE storm-king rides upon the sea, And loud the breakers roar; The wind is still,... | |
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And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 
