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... Complete Rhetoric - Page 324by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHIN 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...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent... | |
| Christian - 1840 - 312 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he, returning, chide ; — Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he, returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?'' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he, returning chide ; " Doth God exact clay-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| Christian - 1840 - 318 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he, returning, chide ; — Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he, returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?'' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| 1857 - 830 pages
...is its flow ! Or what can be grander, more touchingly solemn, than the SONNET on his blindness ? " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days,...account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day labor, light denied 1 I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...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, Lodged with me...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...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, Lodged with me...and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; ' I Mi God exact day-labour, light denied,' I fondly ask .' but Patience to prevent That murmur,... | |
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