 | Future life, A. G. M. - 1878 - 256 pàgines
...universal hope ? In 1867, Whittier wrote hi» famous poem on " The Eternal Goodness." 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 I wait the muffled oar. No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner - 1878 - 158 pàgines
...surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies." And again : — " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." To rebut this, and to show that the poet, in a riper conviction, had a year later surrendered this... | |
 | Franklin Samuel Bliss, Moses Marston - 1878 - 268 pàgines
...God, and by some one or more of these He holds on even to the vilest of our race. " ' I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' " And here let it be impressed upon your minds that you can see God and draw near to Him in no other... | |
 | 1878 - 270 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. O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1878 - 266 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 caie. C. M ALL SAINTS. SM "TJVDR all thy saints, O Lord, •*• Who strove in thee to live, Who followed... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pàgines
...muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. 1 know not where His islands lilt 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1879 - 152 pàgines
...cherubim And seraphs may not see, But nothing can be good in him Which evil is in me. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. C) 2 . All Men are Equal. H. MARTMEMI. ALL men are equal in their birth, Heirs of the earth and skies;... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pàgines
...But because this is so unspeakably divine, I have no fear for what may be beyond. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. But time would fail me if I should attempt to speak of all the elements that make up the rising; faith.... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1879 - 648 pàgines
...HYMNS OF THE CHURCH MILITANT 1.60 MY DESIRE BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only...know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care."— WHITTIER. NEW YORK: Copyright 1879. BY ROBERT CARTER & BROTHH CAMBRIDGE: ST. JOHNLAND PRESS OF STEREOTYPE... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 136 pàgines
...as in the range of physical gravitation. Certainty and necessity are two things. " 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 Put these words in the lips of the man who went hence with that murder... | |
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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. 
