 And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.  The Indiana School Journal - Page 5271880Full view - About this book
 | Christian life - 1873 - 350 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And, O dear Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be,... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I c.innot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If ho|€s like these betray... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...knows that he may trust his Father's affection, and in every trial he may exclaim with the poet : " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Another of the altars of childhood is the altar of love. Everywhere... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 404 pages
...birch and lern, A sweeter memory blow; And there in spring the veeries sing The songs of long ago. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Trochee: 8s and 7s. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Future punishment - 1865 - 192 pages
...me lies ; I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin : Yet, in the maddening maze of things And tossed by...stake my spirit clings, — I know that God is good ! Not mine to look where cherubim And seraphs may not see ; But nothing can be good in him Which evil... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...lies, I feel the guilt within ; I hear, with groans and travail-cries, The "world confess its sin ! 2 Yet in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed star my spirit clings : I know that God is good ! 3 Not mine to look where cherubim And seraphs may... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - New England - 1883 - 618 pages
...sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or ou shore. * 1 know not whore His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." God bless, prosper, and perpetuate our Society, through all... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...lies, I feel the guilt within ; I hear, with groans and travail-cries, The world confess its sin ! 2 Yet in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed star my spirit clings : I know that God is good ! 3 Not mine to look where cherubim LM WlIITTIEB. Oc... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - Consolation - 1866 - 334 pages
...lies, I feel the guilt within ; I hear, with groans and travail-cries, The world confess its sin : Yet in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed star my spirit clings : I know that God is good ! Not mine to look when cherubim And seraphs may not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1867 - 184 pages
...me lies, I feel the guilt within ; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by...fixed stake my spirit clings : I know that God is good ! Not mine to look when cherubim And seraphs may not see, But nothing can be good in Him Which evil... | |
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