 Words are mighty, words are living : Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings : Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies ; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes...  Development Lessons - Page 262by Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bond of brotherhood - 1861 - 798 pages
...which sting like serpents, and leave as sure a poison behind them ? Well might the poet write : — " Words are mighty, words are living Serpents with their...crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings." We are apt to forget the " mightiness " of our words, the life of titterings ; surely better far to... | |
 | Christianity - 1863 - 334 pages
...words are living; Serpents, with their venomed stings, Or bright angels, crowding round its W T ith heaven's light upon their wings. Every word has its...Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies.—Anon. Years ago, and in a parish which I knew, there lived a woman notorious in the neighbourhood... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - English poetry - 1858 - 278 pages
...its prison Stirred it ever, night or day : Only with the heart's last throbbing Could it fade away. Words are mighty, words are living : Serpents with...word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. A LOYE TOKEN. Do you grieve no costly offering To the Lady you can make ? One there is, and gifts less... | |
 | 1858 - 1246 pages
...iu prison Stirr'd it ever, night or day : Only with the heart's last throbbing Could it fade away. Words are mighty, words are living : Serpents with...false, that never dies ; Every word man's lips have utier'd Echoes in God's skies. OVEB, UNDER, OK THROUGH ? I AOKEE with the schoolmaster. If Britannia... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1859 - 136 pages
...ours penetrate the heart of some wandering or wavering youth, and bring him back to duty and to God. " Words are mighty, words are living; Serpents with...never dies ; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes back from yonder skies." Let us, then, fellow teachers, ever be careful to follow the sacred injunction,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1859 - 136 pages
...penetrate the heart of some wandering or wavering you^th, and bring him back to duty and to God. " AVords are mighty, words are living; Serpents with their...never dies ; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes back from yonder skies." Let us, then, fellow teachers, ever be careful to follow the sacred injunction,... | |
 | Hymns - Hymns, English - 1861 - 464 pages
...throbbing Could it fade away. Words are mighty, words are living : Serpents with their venomous sting, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's...word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. TRIFLES. " A GRAIN of sand upon the sight May rob a giant of his might ; Or needle-point let out his... | |
 | Families - 1862 - 362 pages
...perfect protection ; which we ask in the spirit of Jesus Christ. Amen. ^ XLVIII. EVIL AND IDLE SPEAKING. Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with...word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. AA PROCTER. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use... | |
 | Theology - 1863 - 592 pages
...— (Isa. Ix. i, 5.) "The zeal of the Lord of hosts Till perform it." THE WEIGHT OF WOIÏDS. ' VFords are mighty ! words are living Serpents with their...has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies ; £very word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies." So siags Adelaide Anne Proctor, and the... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - 1863 - 428 pages
...its prison Stirred it ever, night or day ; Only with the heart's last throbbing Could it fade away. Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's...word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. A LOVE TOKEN. 0 you grieve no costly offering To the Lady you can make ? One there is, and gifts less... | |
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