 | 1867 - 796 pages
...beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I c.innot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If ho|€s like these betray... | |
 | 1899 - 978 pages
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know 1 cannot drift Beyond. His love and care, Nor does Micah fall into the error of imagining that mercy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 506 pages
...heside the Silent Sea I wait the mnffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know 1 cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O hrothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these hetray,... | |
 | 1872 - 152 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift m BEFORE the weariness of age, Ere youth has lost its fin" Resolve in lite the path you choose Shall... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar : No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air : I only know I can not drift Beyond his love and care. ' O brothers ! if my faith is vain, And thou, O Lord ! by whom... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1876 - 508 pages
...the human, it is consolatory to read his poem on " The Eternal Goodness" — especially this stanza : "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air: I only know I can not drift Beyond His love and care." It is curious that Whittier, whose general style is so clear... | |
 | 1907 - 616 pages
...Whittier's, entitled, "Eternal Goodness." A few days before his death he repeated the last stanzas: "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, T only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. "And then O Lord! by whom are seen Thy creatures... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1879 - 432 pages
...is able to look undismayed and say out of the :deptbi!ef experience: . ." V '.' .,.:/..'. '••) " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air j .. I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Notice also some incidental teachings of... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...course! LXXII. YET, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed stake my spirit clings: I know that God is good! I know...islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I can not drift Beyond His love and care. — Whittier: "The Efernal Goodness." LXXIII. WHAT stronger... | |
 | 1880 - 956 pages
...SELECTIONS :] " Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed stake my spirit clings ; I know that God is good ! * * *...islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I can not drift Beyond His love and care." [ Wliiiticr, in The. Eternal Goodness. " For of all sad words... | |
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Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good! 
