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
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 392 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 - 358 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
...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... | |
 | James Maurice Wilson - 1903 - 262 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
...[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... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904
...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 - 167 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... | |
 | 1905
...nature herself, and, like Tennyson : " 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... | |
 | Milton Valentine - 1906
...of God, but a further gifty9-0#z Him. It is not humanity's progress into the light by its own ascent upon " The great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God," but His gracious descent to us. Without doubt much truth is gained from nature, but it is only truth... | |
 | Helen Philbrook Patten - 1906 - 244 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... | |
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