If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on ; If a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer Thee. Make my mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 851863Full view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 408 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in Thy employ Peace...read the prayer of him Who, with John of Labadie, Thus did Andrew Rykman pray. Are we wiser, better grown, That we may not, in our day, Make his prayer... | |
| Katharine Paine Sutton - Consolation - 1892 - 256 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in Thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. CHOUGH dark my path and sad ray lot •1 Let me be still and murmur not, And... | |
| Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. - Meditations - 1892 - 384 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. WHITTIER '"THINK what the study of nature might be-l come, if, keeping every accurate and careful method... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1892 - 608 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent. Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in Thy employ Peace...than joy ; Out of self to love be led And to heaven acclimate!, Until all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. So we read the prayer of him... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1893 - 640 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. — John Greenleaf Wliiltier. FRIDAY'. All shall be Well. Ye in the pilgrimage of life Who seldom from... | |
| Quotations - 1893 - 106 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in Thy employ, Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. — /. G. Whitticr. Waste no tears Upon the blotted record of lost years, But turn the leaf, and smile,... | |
| Adelaide S. Seaverns - Christian life - 1893 - 380 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in Thy employ Peace,...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. — JG Whittier. SOMETIMES, in passing through a crowd, we see a face that attracts us by its sweetness... | |
| Phillips Brooks - Devotional calendars - 1893 - 380 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in thy employ Peace...And to heaven acclimated. • Until all things sweet ana good THINK what the study of nature might become, if, keeping every accurate and careful method... | |
| Mrs. Ida Scott Taylor McKinney - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...the largest hearts bend downward, Circling all the human race. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE. Let me find iii Thy employ Peace that dearer is than joy ; Out of...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1894 - 592 pages
...; Clothe with lift- the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; I>et me find in Thy employ IVace that dearer is than joy ; Out of self to love be led...heaven acclimated, Until all things sweet and good Seem iiiv natural habitude. So we read the prayer of him Who, with John of Labadie, Trod, of old, the oozy... | |
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