 | Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact day-labor, 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 mild... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, 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... | |
 | British periodicals - 1836 - 650 pages
...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask — but Patience, to prevent...rest'; They also serve who only stand and wait. The circumstances under which the above sonnet was written give it a touching interest. Of the sonnets... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...BLINDNESS. 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, 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 Bears... | |
 | American periodicals - 1897 - 918 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide. "Doth God exact day-labor, 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact day-labor, 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...(though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, 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... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...therewith my Maker, and present My trne account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask ; but patience, to prevent...rest : , They also serve who only stand and wait. The precise time at which Milton's disease arrived at the crisis which deprived him of sight, is not recorded... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; — Doth God exact day-labor 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... | |
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Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best • His state Is kingly. Thousands at His bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest : They also serve who only stand and wait. 
