 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...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 lift Their fronded palms in air : I only know I can not drift Beyond his love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray,... | |
 | Minnesota - 1905 - 566 pages
...life is led, we know not. Our sweetest singer says : "I know not where His islands lift Their f ronded palms in air ; . , I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." MR. AL LARPENTEUR said : Alexander Ramsey is dead. Goodbye, old friend; you have preceded us but a... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...harm from Him can come to me On oce:in or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their f ronclcd 7: Q YH ^ & < _ d uF ԖE/ And Thou, О Lord ! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...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...sure and safer way. And Thou, O Lord ! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human heart on Thee ! OUR MASTER.... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pages
...underlies.' ' 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.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A PARTY was made up for Boxing-Day. Some proposed spending... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...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. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1873 - 824 pages
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies. " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. " And so beside the silent sea 1 wait the muffled, oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...break, But strengthen and sustain. No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can hut give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love....sure and safer way. And Thou, O Lord ! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human heart on Thee l OUR MASTER.... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1874 - 200 pages
...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. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY child is lying on my knees ; •"•*- The signs of heaven... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - Devotional literature - 1874 - 158 pages
...not gone on, wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care ! ' It is not said that the disciples went off this time with any such misgivings, any such reassuring... | |
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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. 
