 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1872 - 108 pages
...KING & Co. 1872. rights reserved. " Our little fyftems have their day ; They have their day, and ceale to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. " We have but faith, we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we fee ; And yet we truft it comes... | |
 | W. P. Dothie - 1872 - 136 pages
...greater than Elisha was there ; One whom the greatest of the prophets merely heralded. " They were but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." The exquisitely touching sequel of the story -is told, like all the rest, in simplest words. The bereaved... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 pages
...themselves. Tennyson truly says : — " Our little systems have their day. They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." Yet for what they are, we must take them and try them by the test of life. It is better to have good... | |
 | Theology - 1873 - 826 pages
...He says, with admirable modesty: " Our little systems have their day, They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." The theology of In Memoriam is kindred iu its structure with that of the poet's friend, Mr Maurice,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. Wo have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Christian life - 1873 - 930 pages
...of Christianity is as little with the historical churches of the Reformation as with Rome itself. " They are but broken lights of Thee ; and Thou, O Lord, art more than they." But it is not a small matter that Italians should be taught that there is something that changes not—... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1873 - 620 pages
..." our little systems " have had their day and ceased to be, we shall know, oh, our Father ! that " They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." Mr. Lane was buried by his wife, who had been in her grave for twenty years, and Miss Lane was left... | |
 | American poetry - 1874 - 686 pages
...wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Robert McCheyne Edgar - 1874 - 382 pages
...is above and higher than both. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they." * Hence Christ breaks in upon every nation as a brother. 'No national prejudice can keep Him at a distance.... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1875 - 564 pages
...say ? " CHAPTER XL. THE FUNERAL. " Our little systems have their day ; They haTe their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." COLD and grey rose the day of the General's burial. The air was pretty clear, and the winds low, but... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
