 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear his... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning...light denied, I fondly ask ? But Patience, to prevent WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide; And that one talent... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning,...denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts; who best Bear his... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1856 - 326 pages
...memory. "When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me...light denied?' I fondly ask: but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work , or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...CCXL. When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me...returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask ; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...blindness. * When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless,...account, lest he, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day labour, light denied ? I fondly ask: But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : God doth... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning,...light denied ? I fondly ask : but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : — God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning,...denied ? " I fondly ask — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies — " God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts ; who_besi. Bear... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning... 
