 Their vantage-ground, and then with vigor new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and aims — we only stand Within the borders of the promised land, Its precious things we seek not to secure \...  Happiness, or, Starting in life - Page 29by Happiness - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Jane L. Borthwick - Poetry, Modern - 1863 - 142 pages
...gain Their vantage-ground, and then with vigour new All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. • Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...know How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed below ! LIVING WATERS. • |N some wild legend of the East the story has been told, Of a fair and wondrous... | |
 | Anson Davies Fitz Randolph - Religious poetry - 1865 - 240 pages
...gain Their vantage-ground, and then, with vigor new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...hang down, and oft unstrung Our harps are left the willow-trees among ; Lord, lead us forward, upward, till we know IIow much of heavenly bliss may be... | |
 | Anson Davies Fitz Randolph - Religious poetry, American - 1866 - 240 pages
...not to secure ; And thus our hands hang down, and oft unstrung Our harps are left the willow-trees among Lord, lead us forward, upward, till we know How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed below. " And then, said they, we will, If the day be clear, show you the Delectable Mountains So he looked,... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - Christian poetry, English - 1867 - 410 pages
...gain Their vantage ground, and then, with vigour new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint — too poor — Are all our views...hang down, and oft, unstrung, Our harps are left the willow-trees among. Lord, lead us forward — upward — till we know How much of heavenly bliss may... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - Consolation - 1867 - 534 pages
...gain Their vantage-ground ; and then, with vigor new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...of the Promised Land ; — Its precious things we ?cek not to secure ; And thus our hands hang down, and oft unstrung, Our harps are left the willow-trees... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Hampden (hon. mrs. Charles Hobart-) - Christian poetry, American - 1871 - 240 pages
...gain Their vantage-ground ; and then, with vigour new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...know How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed below. " And then, said they, we will, if the day be clear, show you the Delectable Mountains So he looked,... | |
 | Arabella M. James - Christian life - 1875 - 248 pages
...finger, Points the upward way to God. MONSKLL. CHAPTER VII. ®n the (Example Mt us bji GEhrist coniinued. AH ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...know How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed below. From " The Changed Cross, and other Poems." JJINCE Christ our Saviour, as the Son of God, loved the... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...shalt gain Their vantage-ground, and then with vigor new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...hang down, and oft unstrung Our harps are left the willow-trees among. Lord ! lead us forward, upward, till we know How much of heavenly bliss may be... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 444 pages
...shalt gain Their vantage-ground, and then with vigor new, All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...hang down, and oft unstrung Our harps are left the willow-trees among. Lord ! lead us forward, upward, till we know How much of heavenly bliss may be... | |
 | Calendars - 1886 - 204 pages
...now ; and all the time an earnest discontent until we come to what we ought to be. PHILLIPS BROOKS. " Ah ! far too faint, too poor Are all our views and...hang down, and oft unstrung, Our harps are left the willow-trees among. Lord, lead us upward, forward, till we know How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed... | |
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