 | 1856 - 864 pages
...things invisible to mortal sight." We cannot retrain from quoting also his two exquisite sonnets on his blindness: "When I consider how my light is spent...death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul mor • bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning. chide;—... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days,* in this dark world and wide, And that one talentt which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. HI. — ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...And wild? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits V SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ero...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...HILTON. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless,...light denied ? I fondly ask : but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : — God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...BLINDNESS. MILTON. I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...denied ? " I fondly ask — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies — " God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts ; who_besi. Bear... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...i3Imtme$». When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts ; whft best Bear... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 pages
...Resignation. WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me...returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied 1" I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need ^ Either... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...Bltntmcss. When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V " I fondly ask : bnt Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...strain: " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...account, lest he returning, chide; 'Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?' I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur soon replies, ' God doth... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,... 
