 I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Seite 3551851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 Seiten
...And every winter change to spring. I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 Seiten
...often brings but one to bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, fulling with my weight of cares k the / I stretch lame hands of faith, and gropp, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1882 - 636 Seiten
...chanting, "Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees "; when I see Tennyson " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God " ; and listen while he cries, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And faintly trust the larger... | |
 | 1882 - 810 Seiten
...from any of us. But now she remembered, and, like a little child falling, with its Weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs. That slope through darkness up to God, this young girl lifted up to Heaven the pitiful "cry of the human." She could say very little. Her... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 380 Seiten
...impressed on our literature ? " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Christian life - 1883 - 392 Seiten
...is which makes many a man " Falter where once he firmly stood, And fall with all his weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to GOD !" Life and strength are good things, and surely that which makes recovery of strength so welcome a... | |
 | PROFESSOR W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. - 1883 - 554 Seiten
...suggest themselves, like him, " ' We falter where we firmly trod, And falling with our weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " ' We stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what we feel... | |
 | 1882 - 896 Seiten
...winter change to spring. ***** 465 I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Helen Shipton - 1885 - 342 Seiten
...ever get into the habit of obeying you ? " CHAPTER XII. GLI TENEBRI. Falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God. I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Hely Hutchinson Almond - 1886 - 76 Seiten
...difficulties, can say with the poet — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
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