 | 1881 - 622 pages
...days, full of devout conviction — ' Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and ceaso to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.' He can no longer use this language, though he still endeavours to re-convey the meaning of it. And... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pages
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...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 pages
...ours, we know not how Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 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. We have but faith ; we cannot know : For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...faith and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken...lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. THE CREDIBILITY OF VENERABLE BEDE, SAINT AND CONFESSOR, AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS. BY JOSEPH BOULT. IT is... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am 1 ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light: And with no...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 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. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 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. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And thon, О Lord, art more than they." M'E. PASTORAL RECOLLECTIONS AND GLEANINGS. NO. V. — ТHВ DYING... | |
| |
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
