We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May... The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 247by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick Charles Woodhouse - Hospitalers - 1879 - 396 pages
...KNIGHTHOOD : LEGENDARY, HONORARY, AND MODERN 317 PEEFACE. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken...in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, " But vaster." TENNYSON. GEOLOGISTS tell us that our earth has passed... | |
| Frederick Charles Woodhouse - Hospitalers - 1879 - 400 pages
...have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thon, 0 Lord, art more than they. " We have but faith : we...in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, " Bnt vaster." TBNNTSON. GEOLOGISTS tell us that our earth has passed... | |
| Frederick Charles Woodhouse - Hospitalers - 1879 - 396 pages
...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...knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in ns dwell ; That mind and sonl, according well, May make one music as before, " But vaster." TENNYSON.... | |
| M H S - 1879 - 392 pages
...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. We have but faith ; we...comes from thee ; A beam in darkness : let it grow. TENNYSON. CTRENGTHEN our faith, O Jesus, that we may look *-' to thee as the Life, the Truth, and the... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of thee, 20 And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but...in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster. We are fools and slight ; 30 We mock thee when we do not... | |
| George Sexton - Theism - 1880 - 176 pages
...unheard of delights, but whose problems perplex and bewilder. " Our little systems have their day; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken...comes from Thee, — A beam in darkness let it grow."* The great problem as to how we can reconcile the freedom of man with the purposes and plans of the... | |
| George Sexton - Theism - 1880 - 176 pages
...unheard of delights, but whose problems perplex and bewilder. " Our little systems have their day; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken...comes from Thee, — A beam in darkness let it grow."* The great problem as to how we can reconcile rlie freedom of man with the purposes and plans of the... | |
| Wilhelm Wägner - Mythology, Germanic - 1880 - 364 pages
...but then face to face." This " then " can never be on earth. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be : They are but broken...comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow ! LAY OF WALA. We here annex one of the most interesting poems of the Elder Edda, the Woluspa or Lay... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : wo f a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered...For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleas May make one music as before, But vaster. We are fools and slight ; We mock thee when we do not fear... | |
| New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : wo cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ;...in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster. TENNYSON, In Memoriam. CHAPTER I. IMMOBTALITY. Thou, even... | |
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