 THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little bed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly. " Oh, mother ! Take my hand," said she, " And then the dark will all be light." We older children grope our way From dark behind...  Book News - Page 3071886Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 862 pages
...turned back in their walk, and now came again within hearing of the preacher's voice — " We elder children grope our way From dark behind to dark before ; And only when our hands we lay, Dear Lord, ha thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore." " Is that meeting-house rant ? " she... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1885 - 508 pages
...DECEMBER, 1884. No. 2. [Copyright, 1884, by THE CENTURY CO.] THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day And there is darkness nevermore. Reach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind as we,... | |
 | Harry John Wilmot- Buxton - 1885 - 292 pages
...not wasted, we know that if we can touch but the hem of Christ's garment we shall be made whole. " A tender child, of summers three, Seeking her little bed at night, Paused in the dark stair timidly, ' Oh ! mother ! take my hand,' said she, •And then the dark will all be... | |
 | 1886 - 520 pages
...ripest and mellowest verse, from which we select two pieces to copy here : • THK LIGHT THAT IS KELT. A tender child of summers three, Seeking her little...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day. And there is darkness nevermore. Reach downward to the sunless day» Wherein our guides are blind as we,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 570 pages
...forgiveness, all have debts to pay Ere the night cometh, while it still is day. THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore Reach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind as we,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...no wrong can ever change to hate, No sin make less than all-compassionate I THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore. Eeach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind as we,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 534 pages
...while it still is day. THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little hed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly. " Oh,...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore. Reach downward to the sunless dnys Wherein our guides are blind as we,... | |
 | 1889 - 236 pages
...remember this, my friends — This woman's deaf and dumb. A WISELY ANONYMOUS MAN. THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little...we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day And there is darkness nevermore, _, Reach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind as... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1889 - 246 pages
...may follow the study of the picture. LESSON XIII. Oral Paraphrase. STANZAS FROM WHITTIER'S POEMS. I. A tender child of summers three, Seeking her little...hand," said she, "And then the dark will all be light." 2. What matter how the storm behaved? What matter how the north wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 pages
...wrong can ever change to hate, No sin make less than all-compassionate ! 1884. THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A. TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little...Paused on the dark stair timidly. '• Oh, mother I Take my hand," said she, " And then the dark will all be light." We older children grope our way... | |
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