 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - Hymns, English - 1885 - 236 pages
...are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break : But strengthen and sustain. 3. I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies. And Thou, O Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive... | |
 | Charles Lanman - Arctic regions - 1885 - 376 pages
...many of the mourners present must have felt their special force, when he says : "I know not what tlio future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death Sis mercy underlies." The remains of the hero lie in the beautiful cemetery of the Naval Academy, overlooking... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...blessings known Of greater out of sight, And with the chastened Psalmist own His judgments too are right. I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts he gave, And plead... | |
 | Christopher R. ELIOT (and STAPLES (Charles J.)) - Funeral rites and ceremonies - 1886 - 302 pages
...things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed stake my spirit clings : I know that God is good. I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 524 pages
...blessings known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right. I long for household voices gone. For vanished smiles...reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1886 - 204 pages
...known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right. 1 long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove : I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1958 - 108 pages
...manner of accepting a long illness. He seemed to be living by the sentiment expressed by Whittier: I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise....Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. I shall miss him in the meetings of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in the unofficial conferences... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1958 - 108 pages
...manner of accepting a long illness. He seemed to be living by the sentiment expressed by Whittier: I know not what the future hath. Of marvel or surprise....Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. I shall miss him in the meetings of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in the unofficial conferences... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1960 - 262 pages
...again tomorrow, It may rain — but say, Ain't it fine today? — Douglas Malloch From ETERNAL GOODNESS I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise,...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 On ocean or on shore.... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...love. I dimly guess from hlessings known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles...mercy underlies. And if my heart and flesh are weak To hear an untried pain, The hruised reed He will not hreak, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of... | |
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I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 
