 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 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... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs Which slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands...of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and ;all To what I feel is lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. TRNNYSON : In Memariam. J Manners^... | |
 | Hugh Junor Browne - 1876 - 474 pages
...on which they were accustomed to lean for years giving way, one after another, and leaving them to " Stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff," without any prospect of comfort in time, or any grounds for hope in eternity, will readily acknowledge... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 836 pages
...of the same mystery which tortured the ancient patriarch, thus describes his faith in doubt : — " 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, " I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pages
...And fnlling with my weight of cares Uixin the great world's altar-stairs That slope thrn' darkness np to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dnet and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trnst the larger hope. Lv. " So... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...meaning in her deeds. And finding that of fifty seeds She often brines but one to bear — THE SLEEP. 719 I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my...stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dcst and chaff, and call To what I fee, is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. ALFBKD Тккитеои.... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1878 - 514 pages
...Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ;" who can only say — "I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope. And gather...call To what I feel is Lord of all. And faintly trust i in • larger hope." Tlieir ritual in all its manifold variety was but as the inarticulate wailing... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - 386 pages
...love. What a beautiful image about Prayer also is contained in this stanza from In Memoriam : — " I falter, where I firmly trod, And falling, with my...altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." The sloping of the altar-stairs of prayer through the darkness of earth up to the light of heaven is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 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... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...doubt, an experience so well described by the poet, with Bethel for the foreground and imagery, — " I falter where I firmly trod ; And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God : " I stretch lame hands of faith,... | |
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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... 
