 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...us in the dust: Thou mailest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine,...them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have tlieirtlay and cease to be: They arc but broken lights of thce, And lhou,O Lord, art more than... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 sider
...India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord ! art more than they." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine beneficence... | |
 | 1876 - 516 sider
...Christ, God's elect hero, as Lord and King, saying, in cheerful surrender of heart, and will, and life, " Thou seemest human and divine ; The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine." Christ has wrought with such unwonted skill upon man's disordered nature, harmonizing its painful discords,... | |
 | 1870 - 406 sider
...intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " Our little systems have their day — They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 640 sider
...us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him ; thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine,...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know : For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 sider
...faith alone, embrace, Believing where WF cannot prove. " Our little systems have their day — They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Tnou, O Lord, art more than they." " Our little systems " indeed! — yes, so little when compared... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 sider
...in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine,...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 sider
...in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine,...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 sider
...face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove :" And he continues : — " Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Ending : — " Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair, I trust he lives... | |
 | 1850 - 602 sider
...trust the infinite unknown. Thus in the prefatory poem : — " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, — And thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
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Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 
