 Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands...  THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE - Page 93by HODGES SMITH - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Ready - 1873 - 312 pages
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good he comprehends not, Till the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened.' To some, the deep 'peace of God which passeth all understanding ' is given almost as soon as they awaken... | |
 | Robert Brown - Ethnology - 1873 - 712 pages
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not ; That flie feeble hands, and helplesi. Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness." " Tell me ,tho songs of a nation, and I will tell you their history," is an old truism. It is equally... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 622 pages
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not ; That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened." The grandest affair of the kind that has been held upon Vancouver Island for many years, came off in... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 596 pages
...yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not ; That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping|blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened." The grandest aliair of the kind that has been held upon Vancouver Island tor many years, came oft"... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Mythology - 1875 - 308 pages
...good they comprehend not ; That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Trust God's right hand in that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened,' so that when we read how poor wild souls, craving after the Power which they feel about them, are not... | |
 | Harriet Annie Wilkins - Canadian poetry - 1876 - 264 pages
...savage bosoms there are longings For the good they comprehend not ; That feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right...that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened : List to this simple story." — Lonyfellow. IN THE STORM. JHEY tell me I am going soon. I know it... | |
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pages
...jealous care from the first. No other monastic superior, \Villiam of Paisley now owned. OLD CHURCHES. YE who sometimes in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country,— Where the tangled barberry bushes Hang their tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls grey with mosses,— Pause by... | |
 | Henry C. Pedder - Religion and science - 1876 - 104 pages
...good they comprehend not; That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Trust God's right hand in that darkness, And are lifted up and strengthened." Leaving behind us the simpler faith which these nature-myths represent, and realizing more and more... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness Touch God's right...strengthened; — Listen to this simple story, To the Song of Hiawatha I Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country Where... | |
 | Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - 1877 - 412 pages
...longings , yearnings , strivings , For the good they comprehend not ; That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strenghtened , Listen Ye who sometimes, in yonr rambles Through the green leaves of the country , Where... | |
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