 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 cannot drift Beyond His love and care.  American Illustrated Magazine - Page 4821888Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...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 cannot drift Beyond His... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pages
...condensed in the following verses: — "And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo 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 c.innot drift Beyond His... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...God which enabled Whittier to say, as he contemplated the mysteries of life and death : — " And ao beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; No...harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore." Substitutes — I can forgive the audacity Wanted. remark of tne Contributor's friend, but I lift up... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 pages
...are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 4 And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. • 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1883 - 618 pages
...poet, Whitticr, which are a consolation to me, and which he kindly repeated to me when we last met : " And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or ou shore. * 1 know not whore His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift... | |
 | 1866 - 578 pages
...flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronted palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his... | |
 | Edward James Young - 1866 - 38 pages
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. 10 And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar...harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronted balms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his... | |
 | 1866 - 836 pages
...are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. o 4 And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar;...harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1866 - 334 pages
...have. Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts he gave, And plead his love for love. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronted balms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1867 - 532 pages
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so, beside the silent sea, I 'wait the muffled...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 cannot drift Beyond his... | |
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