 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 Seiten
...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,...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 His... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...BLINDNESS. " 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, Lodg'd with me...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... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 Seiten
...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,...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 Milton - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...consider how my light is spent Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...Blindness. 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, Lodg'd with me...present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; ' l)oth God exact day-labour, light denied Г I fondly ask; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 Seiten
...talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, thongh my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning,...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 his... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 Seiten
...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...light denied?" I fondly ask: but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's works, or his own gifts; who best Bear His... | |
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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... 
