 IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen...  The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 251by John Kelman - 1904 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1900 - 514 pages
...See adv. by Messrs. IO Woodruff & Co., and send for literature and samples. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...skies Books and my food and summer rain Knocked on iny sullen heart in vain ; Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or,... | |
 | Medicine - 1900 - 522 pages
...See adv. by Messrs. IO Woodruff & Co., and send for literature and samples. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race Aud shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved rae not , if morning... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII . THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in ! XXIII... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON. IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in ! 'NOT... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1888 - 612 pages
...reclaimed Is as a kingdom conquered, where to reign. Our last quotation must be " The Celestial Surgeon : " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in ! The... | |
 | Numismatics - 1921 - 658 pages
...in office a marked success. With apologies to the author, I now most sincerely offer the following: If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And set no brisk ANA pace; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if bright blue skies, Books,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1916 - 464 pages
...not so often heard quoted the later lines in the same Stevensonian verses : Lord, thy most poignant pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in. This... | |
 | English poetry - 1893 - 322 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in. THE... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter horne from the hill. tat XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in ! 130... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 396 pages
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. 120 XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! XXIII... | |
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