 | 1876 - 516 pages
...Christ, God's elect hero, as Lord and King, saying, in cheerful surrender of heart, and will, and life, " Thou seemest human and divine ; The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine." Christ has wrought with such unwonted skill upon man's disordered nature, harmonizing its painful discords,... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know : For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...trust the infinite unknown. Thus in the prefatory poem : — " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken...of thee, — And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...faith and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken...lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. THE CREDIBILITY OF VENERABLE BEDE, SAINT AND CONFESSOR, AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS. BY JOSEPH BOULT. IT is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1850 - 590 pages
...skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...hast made him : Thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, 3hou : Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are...their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights oflhee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove :" And he continues : — " Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Ending : — " Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair, I trust he lives... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
