 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring...  Letts's illustrated household magazine - Page 1101883Full view - About this book
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...cell, Our neighbour and our friend farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful men beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God. EVENING. SUN of my... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...is perfection. All else is pretence, and turns at last to ashes, or ends in mischievous madness. " We need not bid for cloistered cell. Our neighbour,...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God." Would that the "Christian... | |
 | Charlotte Anley - 1853 - 596 pages
...Gertrude ; she thought of Earlswood, and again most earnestly wished she had never left it. CHAPTER XV. " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour,...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Born to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily near to God." KEBLE. " HAVE you... | |
 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...would all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer G od. Seek we no more... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."— 1 COR. x. 31. " We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...trivial round, the common task. Would furnish all we ought to ask, — Room to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God." — KEELE. "... | |
 | Elizabeth Prentiss - 1856 - 400 pages
...and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. "We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask: Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Kola TS. OOMFOETAB -S... | |
 | Bessie C. A - 1853 - 274 pages
...school ; few but would have died broken-hearted, or buried themselves in seclusion and sorrow. But " We need not bid for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky." And Blanche Trefford will work on, rewarded ever by that inward peace the world can neither give nor... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 596 pages
...our hearts with wisdom talk, Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! 3 We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...ourselves too high • For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial rovind, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to nsk ; Koom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...world that does violence to man's social nature. "We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The irivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ;' Room to deny ourselves, a road... | |
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