 | 1851 - 598 pages
...of peace. " And falling, with my weight of care, Upon the great world's altar-stair, "Which slopes through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope ; " and alas ! but how "faintly trust the larger hope ! " This battle of life, — these victories of sin,... | |
 | 1851 - 658 pages
...leave nothing for the best and wisest of us, but, laden with cares and doubts, to fall suppliant — Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Our sorrow for the loss of those two noble brothers is deepened and doubled by the thought of what... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...leave nothing for the best and wisest of us, but, laden with cares and doubts, to fall suppliant — Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, Our sorrow for the loss of those two noble brothers is deepened and doubled by the thought of what... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 268 pages
...fringed ivith fire."— xv. " And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day" — xlix. " 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." — liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground"... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 pages
...fringed with fire."—xv. "And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day."—xlix. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's Altar stain That slope through darkness up to God."—liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground."—xi.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...John Chapman, 1853. t Him, infer aliot, we may presume to have been referred to by the most recent, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hnnds of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God; " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Humphry William Freeland - 1857 - 252 pages
...herald melodies of spring ; But in the songs I love to sing A doubtful gleam of solace lives. ***** Falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; 1 stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...Her seeret meaning iu her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds ' She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' 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... 
