 It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er...  The Christian Pioneer - Page 101881Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...we our lives. MRS. OSOOOD. It may not bo our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done I Possessions vanish, and opinions change, And passion holds a fluctuating seat; But. subject neither... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 356 pages
...the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done." WnrrriEE. 4 I HAVE come to entertain very serious doubts about my "orthodoxy" on the subject of doing... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 350 pages
...hungering neighbor, and me." " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves; Yet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in dne,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done ! The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed, The fountain and the noonday shade. And were this life the... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pages
...praise and thankfulness ? It may not bo onr lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the...Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with G.;d's great thought, The near i>n'i future blend in one, And whatso'cr is willed is done ! And ours... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheave* Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done 1 The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed, The fountain and the noonday shade. And were this life the... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 540 pages
...in the ripen field; JJor ours to hear on sumaer eves, The reapers' song among the sheaves ; Yet when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoever is willed is done! And ours the grateful service whence Comes day by day the recompense;... | |
 | John W. Berry - 1871 - 236 pages
...sickle, in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear on summer's eves The Reaper's song among the sheaves; But ours the grateful service, whence Comes day by day the recompense, The hope, the purpose staid, The fountain, and the noon-day shade. And were this life its utmost span, The only end... | |
 | Theron Brown - 1873 - 496 pages
...old bass-viol that earned him his college course. CHAPTER XXII. DISCOVERIES AND FULFILLMENTS. - When our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done-" WHITTIEK. "Ever from toil to rest, Where a rim of sea-like splendor runs, Where the days bury their... | |
 | Timothy Titcomb - 1874 - 354 pages
...the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great...and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed IB done." WHITTUR. I HAVE come to entertain very serious doubts about my "orthodoxy" on the subject... | |
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