With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Way, Truth, and Life: Sermons - Sivu 52tekijä(t) Nahor Augustus Staples - 1870 - 264 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sivua
...pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. EDWIN ARNOLD — Light of Asia. 19 WENDELL PHILLIPS — Speech. New York, Jan. 21, 1863. 20 We have room but for Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. MATTHEW ARNOLD — Morality. St.... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 sivua
...mystery our soul abides; But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off the... | |
| Sir Walter Murdoch - 1923 - 342 sivua
...rocks. What sustained him was the belief that his country needed him. CHAPTER XVI LAST YEARS IN POLITICS With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. — MATTHEW ARNOLD. DEAKIN'S political career culminated in 1907 ; the rest of the story may be very... | |
| George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 sivua
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed, 5 Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done, lo Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1928 - 236 sivua
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd 5 Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. 10 Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off... | |
| Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 sivua
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off the... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 sivua
...abides ; But tasks in hours of insight will'd 5 Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With achmg hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. 10 Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off... | |
| Levi Edgar Young - 1924 - 476 sivua
...wish had never happened. PART III THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATION CHAPTER XXVII THE SCHOOLS OF THE PIONEERS "With aching hands and bleeding feet, We dig and heap,...stone on stone, We bear the burden and the heat Of that long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern."... | |
| 1900 - 662 sivua
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. "With aching hands and bleeding feet, We dig and heap, lay stone on stone: We hear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish 'twere done; Not till the hours of light return,... | |
| George Sprau - 1925 - 368 sivua
...mystery our soul abides; But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern." * All life cannot be noble, but... | |
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