 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1850 - 790 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he reluming chide ; Doth God exact day labour light denied? I fondly ask : but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not" need Eitlicr man's work or his own gifts ; who best Bear his... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...Judge ; who thenceforth bade thee rest, And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. ' ON THE AUTHOR S BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; — " Doth... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my life 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 chide; " Doth God... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...BLINDNESS. When I consider how my life 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 trne account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide; Doth God exact day labour , light denied, I fondly ask? but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies: God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...deprivation. " When I consider how my life 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, chide ; — Doth... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...(Milton.) 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, chide ; "Doth God... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...sounds In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent. To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...for relief. He ordered a general fast, and made a national contribution, amounting to £40,000. XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...passions, and you are freer than the Parthian king. — Abridged from TAYLOR'S ' Holy Living.' MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God... | |
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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... 
