 | 1881 - 622 pages
...days, full of devout conviction — ' Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and ceaso to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.' He can no longer use this language, though he still endeavours to re-convey the meaning of it. And... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...mailest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have tlieirtlay and cease to be: They arc but broken lights of thce, And lhou,O Lord, art more than... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pages
...India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord ! art more than they." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine beneficence... | |
 | 1876 - 516 pages
...Christ, God's elect hero, as Lord and King, saying, in cheerful surrender of heart, and will, and life, " Thou seemest human and divine ; The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine." Christ has wrought with such unwonted skill upon man's disordered nature, harmonizing its painful discords,... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " Our little systems have their day — They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him ; thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know : For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...faith and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken...lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. THE CREDIBILITY OF VENERABLE BEDE, SAINT AND CONFESSOR, AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS. BY JOSEPH BOULT. IT is... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...faith alone, embrace, Believing where WF cannot prove. " Our little systems have their day — They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Tnou, O Lord, art more than they." " Our little systems " indeed! — yes, so little when compared... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
