STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot... Proceedings - Page 126by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. [From In Mtmoriam.] STJtOA'G SOJf OF GOD. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou inadest life in man and brute, Thou inadest Death; and... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1894 - 1066 pages
...India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord ! art more than they." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine beneficence... | |
| 1870 - 406 pages
...intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " Our little systems have their day — They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see... | |
| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...breaks out in the opening stanzas like one who feels that he stands upon a solid basis of faith. " Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where WB cannot prove ; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...wrestling and achieved repose it is akin to the quiet grandeur of the litany of the Church of England : Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ;... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...Lore ! Whom we, that have not si>cn Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where WF cannot prove. " Our little systems have their day...cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Tnou, O Lord, art more than they." " Our little systems " indeed! — yes, so little when compared... | |
| 1850 - 590 pages
...first of living English poets opens his last great work (in refreshing contrast to the book before " Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And thon, О Lord, art more than they." M'E. PASTORAL RECOLLECTIONS AND GLEANINGS. NO. V. — ТHВ DYING... | |
| United States - 1850 - 618 pages
...the age could have written. We will quote the commencement and close of the introductory poem : '* STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are oure( we know not... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...BY t, ; • ^ IN MEMOEIAM. IiN MEMORIAM. SECOND EDITION". LONDON : EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. 1850. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orhs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and hrute ; Thou madest Death ;... | |
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