 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...HILTON. 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,...account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask : but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : —... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 pages
...Resignation. 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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied 1" I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...BLINDNESS. MILTON. 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...account, lest He, returning, chide, — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies —... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...Bltntmcss. 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...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V " I fondly ask : bnt Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...i3Imtme$». 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...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...wisdom that hare it ; and those that are fool•, la: them use their talents. Twelfth Night, i. 5. that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide. MILTON. Sonnets. • ye proud Heart-swoln, wliile in your pride ye contemplate Your talents, power,... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...strain: " 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent9 winch is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth run need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best l ..... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - Lynchburg (Va.) - 1858 - 364 pages
...LANGHORNE. " 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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; ' Doth God exact day labor, light denied ? ' I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, * God... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Skepticism - 1859 - 410 pages
...lines,— 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...light denied?" I fondly ask : but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Hither man's work, or His own gifts; who best Sear His... | |
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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... 
