 We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.  Overland Monthly - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
 | 1887 - 236 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear : Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
 | 1887 - 458 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love which clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...down. In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him no depth can drown. In joy of inward peace, or sense Of sorrow over sin, He is His own best evidence,... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 pages
...lore, Nor dream of bards and seers, No dead fact stranded on the shore Of the oblivious years ; — But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. JG 18 November. The Christ says, Run not hither and thither... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? "We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
 | Arnold Whitaker Oxford - 1888 - 420 pages
...remains. JG Whitlier. 178 Jesus. HE cometh not a king to reign, The world's long hope is dim ; CM. 149 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ;... | |
 | 1889 - 460 pages
...heavenly lore, That whole and sick, and weak and strong, May praise Thee evermore. EH PLUMPTEB. 180 CM 1 WE may not climb the heavenly steeps \To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet, A present help is He ; And faith has yet its Olivet, And love... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
 | United Methodist Free Churches - 1889 - 558 pages
...Shine out, O Light Divine, and show How wide and far we stray ! 4 We may not climb the heavenly stoeps To bring the Lord Christ down : In vain we search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 5 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, James Vila Blake, Frederick Lucian Hosmer - 1880 - 280 pages
...reign, The world's long hope is dim; The weary centuries watch in vain The clouds of heaven for him. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ;... | |
 | John Hunter - 1889 - 712 pages
...reign, The world's long hope is dim ; The weary centuries watch in vain The clouds of heaven for Him. 2. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. 3. The healing of His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain... | |
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