 | Ellen E. Miles - American poetry - 1878 - 232 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. MINISTRY OF THE DEPARTED. 179 O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - Hymns, English - 1878 - 266 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,...air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and caie. C. M ALL SAINTS. SM "TJVDR all thy saints, O Lord, •*• Who strove in thee to live, Who followed... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...and sustain. And so beside the Silent Sea 1 wait the muffled oar : No harm from Him can come to m<s On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O brothers ! if my faith is vain. If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to ma On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O brothers I if my iaith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | Olive San Louie Anderson - Ann Arbor (Mich.) - 1878 - 292 pages
...poems, and read " The Eternal Goodness." " How beautiful that is ! " cried Will, as she repeated : " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." Then she read " Our Master," and Lowell's " Vision of Sir Laiinf al," and ended with Gerald Massey's... | |
 | Franklin Samuel Bliss, Moses Marston - Sermons, American - 1878 - 268 pages
...bind the soul to God, and by some one or more of these He holds on even to the vilest of our race. " ' I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' " And here let it be impressed upon your minds that you can see God and draw near to Him in no other... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner - Future punishment - 1878 - 152 pages
...hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies." And again : — "I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." To rebut this, and to show that the poet, in a riper conviction, had a year later surrendered this... | |
 | Future life, A. G. M. - Future punishment - 1878 - 256 pages
...palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar. No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. Put these words in the lips of the man who went hence with that murder and suicide on. his soul ! That... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 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 On ocean or on shore. 1 know not where His islands lilt Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His... | |
 | Freemasons. Massachusetts. Scottish rite - 1879 - 882 pages
...exalted faith of the inspired New-England poet, when he says, — "And so, beside the Silent Se.1 I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." ILL.-. BRO.-. JOHN MCCLELLAN, 33 . In the death of John McClellan, which occurred on the 291h of September,... | |
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And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 
