| General Association of Connecticut - Congregational churches - 1868 - 442 pages
...And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed star my spirit clings ; — I know that God is good ! 4 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 5 And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me, On ocean... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1868 - 412 pages
...beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAPTER I. [ These Scriptures were obtained by the JSaron de Guldenstubbe and... | |
| Franklin Samuel Bliss - Sermons, American - 1868 - 214 pages
...one, or more of these he holds on, even to the vilest of our race. " I know not where his islands 'ift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." In the second place, permit us to admonish you not to make the mistake of thinking that you can find... | |
| Iowa State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1909 - 566 pages
...with a satisfied resignation you can with the poet Whittier truly say: "I know not where His island lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know, I cannot drift Beyond His love or care." THE PRESIDENT : This paper is open for discussion now. MR. CLEMONS : May I ask by what method... | |
| Universalism - 1869 - 1042 pages
...hate,— I know His goodness and His love. • » * I know not where His islands lift Theit trended palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.'' Just as clearly and reverently as he speaks of the great. Salvation, does he recognize the divine medium... | |
| 1870
...love for love. 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...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. О brothers! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
| 1914 - 1248 pages
...Better than I can express my faith myself John G. Whittier has expressed it in the following lines : " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." I do not suppose that a grub in the water could form any conception of the winged insect which it will... | |
| Bible - 1870 - 612 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 609 CM WATTS. JRourn not t]ie JBepartrt. WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms?... | |
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