| Minnesota - 1905 - 566 pages
...life is led, we know not. Our sweetest singer says : "I know not where His islands lift Their f ronded palms in air ; . , I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." MR. AL LARPENTEUR said : Alexander Ramsey is dead. Goodbye, old friend; you have preceded us but a... | |
| Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait mf[ % !H = , L ) jΗR ӰZL y | oce:in or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their f ronclcd palms in air ; I only know I... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
| James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pages
...surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies.' ' And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me,...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A PARTY was made up for Boxing-Day. Some proposed spending... | |
| Unitarianism - 1873 - 824 pages
...in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. " And so beside the silent sea 1 wait the muffled, oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore." " How often we forget to thank God for the present blessings he is loading us with, while we are anticipating... | |
| Edwin Courtland Bolles - Hymns, English - 1873 - 778 pages
...from him can come to uic On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded jmlms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 309 CM WATTS. WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? Tis but the voice that... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1874 - 200 pages
...I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY child is lying on my knees ; •"•*- The signs of heaven... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - Devotional literature - 1874 - 158 pages
...not gone on, wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care ! ' It is not said that the disciples went off this time with any such misgivings, any such reassuring... | |
| Edwards Amasa Park - 1874 - 112 pages
...the state of mind which Whittier expresses, in those beautiful lines, — " I know not where Thine islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond Thy love and care." He started, with a sudden energy of gesture always peculiar to him, and striking... | |
| Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me...only know I cannot drift , Beyond His love and care. —Whittier. WRECKED. THE storm-king rides upon the sea, And loud the breakers roar; The wind is still,... | |
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