 | Pope John Paul I - Christianity - 2001 - 292 pages
...Manzoni agrees: up there 'former glory is silence and darkness'. Isaiah agrees in the famous dialogue: 'The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry?...the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth.' We agree with these great men, dear Peguy. Some may call us 'alienated', poetic and impractical. We... | |
 | Reuben Archer Torrey, Charles L. Feinberg - Religion - 760 pages
...given them thy word . . . Sanctify them through [in] the truth. Thy word is truth" (John 17:14, 17). The voice said : Cry. And he said, What shall I cry...field . . . The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever" (Isa. 40:6, 8). "For we can do nothing against the truth,... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 326 pages
...primitive Bard. 3-4 Los has said this once before, in 34 [30] : 25-6. 5-7 Cf. Is. 40.6-7: 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass.' These lines suggest Moses as well as Jesus. In Ex. 2.3 the infant Moses was placed in an ark of bulrushes,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...health, Our songs we therefore sure Will always sing within thy house, While our life days endure. 40:6-8 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. THE STEED BIT HIS MASTER ANONYMOUS The steed bit his master:... | |
 | A. David Moody - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 412 pages
...wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. . . The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isaiah xl, 3-8) What faith in life may be I know not . .... | |
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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass.... 
