 | 1872 - 660 pàgines
...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 can not drift Beyond his love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray,... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pàgines
...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.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A PARTY was made up for Boxing-Day. Some proposed spending... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pàgines
...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. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pàgines
...hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies. " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only 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... | |
 | Edwin Courtland Bolles - 1873 - 778 pàgines
...from him can come to uic On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded jmlms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 309 CM WATTS. WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? Tis but the voice that... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1874 - 158 pàgines
...wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, — I 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... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pàgines
...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. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY child is lying on my knees ; •"•*- The signs of heaven... | |
 | Edwards Amasa Park - 1874 - 112 pàgines
...the state of mind which Whittier expresses, in those beautiful lines, — " I know not where Thine islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond Thy love and care." He started, with a sudden energy of gesture always peculiar to him, and striking... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - 1875 - 400 pàgines
...sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm can come from him 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. ETERNAL God, who hast neither dawn nor evening, yet sendest us alternate mercies of the darkness and... | |
 | 1875 - 606 pàgines
...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." But they know even more than this. They know that "in their Father's house are many mansions," and... | |
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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. 
