 I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 3551851Full view - About this book
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1900 - 212 pages
...She often brings but one to bear, " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | 1900 - 238 pages
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 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...often brings but one to bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Charles Carroll Everett - 1901 - 382 pages
...of existence, the poet cries : " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | 1902 - 970 pages
...righteous Abel and grew with the growth of human sin and need until we sou all nations blindly groping "Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." We see also a procession of innocent and bleeding victims that runs like a scarlet thread through the... | |
 | 1902 - 616 pages
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 | James Maurice Wilson - 1903 - 326 pages
...appeals to us to show that we have got behind the conventionalities, and have at any rate begun to fall Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. It is a tremendous appeal ; and it comes from hundreds who are present in our churches, and from the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 626 pages
...[Compare In Memoriam, Iv. — a passage quoted in one of Kuskiu's " Letters to MG" (Mary Gladstone) :— " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God."] § 27. Observe, also, the difference between tasting knowI ledge and hoarding it. In this respect it... | |
 | 1904 - 696 pages
...often brings but one to bear, " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1904 - 206 pages
...She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of fate, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
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