 | 1843 - 202 sivua
...would all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk! The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish...deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us, this and every day, To... | |
 | Enthusiast - 1843 - 228 sivua
... . ENTHUSIAST; anU We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky ; The trivial sound, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring-... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sivua
...Along Life's dullest, dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these,... | |
 | 1872 - 722 sivua
...Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine; " and Keble, — " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God." If, however, we allow the tendency of these things to absorb more than their lawful share of attention... | |
 | George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - 1845 - 448 sivua
...the " Christian year" had always so sung! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high...ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Oh could we learn that sacrifice, What lights would all around us rise! How would our hearts with wisdom... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1845 - 168 sivua
...not bid, for cloistefed cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves loo high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round,...ourselves — a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." And does not this possibility of erecting the mystic ladder, speak to us of the union of earth and... | |
 | Thomas Page - 1845 - 82 sivua
...divine blessing, it is designed to answer. ' Wo need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask : Koom to deny ourselves— a road To bring us daUy nearer God." CHRISTIAN YEAB. jONE of us liveth... | |
 | 1876 - 818 sivua
...truly as sweetly has it been sung — " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Boom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring ua, daily, nearer God." "Religion consists, not so much... | |
 | 1845 - 450 sivua
...would all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish...deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above ; And help us, this and every day, To... | |
 | 1845 - 572 sivua
...addition to that increasing class of fictions, which teach how ' The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God.' * The Birthday' is equal, probably, in intention, but certainly inferior in execution, to the two we... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 
