 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...joy, are instruments in the hand of the surgeon. In his little poem, "The Celestial Surgeon," he says: "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...food, and Summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain, Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. Or, if too obdurate, I,... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 pages
...did not have in mind a more serious aspect of this same mood when he wrote the fa miliar lines, — If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain. Knocked on my sullen heart in vain; — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. Even Stevenson called... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pages
...contains a special philosophy of life. It is entitled The Celestial Surgeon, and begins thus : — " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness." That is what the pursuit of happiness becomes to some of us, — a task, to be persevered in with resolute... | |
 | 1900 - 514 pages
...See adv. by Messrs. IO Woodruff & Co., and send for literature and samples. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...skies Books and my food and summer rain Knocked on iny sullen heart in vain ; Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or,... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 344 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON. IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 204 pages
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII . THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | 1888 - 612 pages
...reclaimed Is as a kingdom conquered, where to reign. Our last quotation must be " The Celestial Surgeon : " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | 1893 - 322 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain ; — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
 | 1922 - 496 pages
...sale will please notify Mrs. St. John Alison Lawton, 41 South Battery, Charleston, SC, stating price. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food and summer rain... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter horne from the hill. tat XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate... | |
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IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... 
