 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 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 weight of care* Upon the great world's altar-stairs •' That slope thro' darkness up to God, ') I stretch lame... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 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... | |
 | Emily Sarah Holt - 1872 - 398 pages
...they knew it not — on the darkest hour of the night. CHAPTER X. THE DARKEST HOUR OF THE NlGHT. " 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." —... | |
 | William Landels - 1872 - 248 pages
...and were left to grope our way without Divine direction, he has thus described his feelings : — " I falter where I firmly trod ; And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs, Which slope through darkness up to God — I stretch lame hands of faith,... | |
 | Christian evidence society, Samuel Wilberforce - 1872 - 502 pages
...back upon the throne ; but there are others who in pursuing their studies feel themselves treading " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ;" while others, again, believe that for a full conception of the universe, it is necessary to gain... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...finding that of ¡lf.y seeds She nflcn hrings hat one to hear, I falter where I firmly trod, And fnlling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkneee np to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dnst and chaff, and... | |
 | 1873 - 826 pages
...him, since in nature out of .fifty seeds "she often brings but one to bear;" and so, falling with his weight of cares " Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to Oiod, " I stretch lame hands of failh, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 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'* altar-stairs. That slope through darkness np to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith and grope.... | |
 | 1874 - 1002 pages
...himself. Do I mistake when I make its concluding lines a fit sequel for this cry in " In Memoriam" ? 11 1 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... | |
 | 1874 - 332 pages
...Paul here says, you are " feeling after him," you grope timidly, as our Poet-Laureate well puts it — "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... 
