 | Brother Azarias - 1892 - 292 pages
...the guide and strength-giver of all finite wills. And so Tennyson addresses the Divine Will: — " O Living Will that shalt endure When all that seems...rock, Flow through our deeds and make them pure." 8 He asks that our deeds may be made pure in order that we may all the more readily rise to faith in... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1892 - 292 pages
...and strength-giver of all finite wills. And so Tennyson addresses the Divine Will : — " O Laving Will that shalt endure When all that seems shall suffer...spiritual rock, Flow through our deeds and make them pure."8 He asks that our deeds may be made pure in order that we may all the more readily rise to faith... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...shall endure When all that teems shall suffer shock, 278 279 Rise in the spiritual rock, flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...thee still, and I rejoice ; I prosper, circled with thy voice ; I shall not lose thee tho' I die. cxxx O LIVING will that shalt endure When all that seems...shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears,... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 pages
...image of the holy Vessel — for without the co-operation of Man, God's Will cannot be done on earth : "O living Will, that shalt endure When all that seems...spiritual rock, Flow through our deeds and make them pure. The English Spirit With an Introduction by Owen Barfield DE FAULKNER JONES First published in 1935,... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...characteristic "seem" occurs in two crucial places. And in the following lyric the "living will" is invoked That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears - (CXXXI) a turn of phrase ("as unto") by no means indicating total intellectual confidence that there... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...Behold, I dream a dream of good, And mingle all the world with thee. CXXXI O living will that shah endure When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears,... | |
 | Kate Flint - 2000 - 450 pages
...prays, echoing Isaiah, that it may be possible to raise a voice to God to celebrate unprovable truths: That we may lift from out of dust / A voice as unto him that hears'.71 Tennyson's fear, I suggest, is not just of the certainty and finality of mortality. It chimes... | |
 | William R. Brashear - 2008 - 182 pages
...through the struggle and suffering of In Memoriam abetted by new philosophic orientations, into that "living will that shalt endure / When all that seems shall suffer shock" (131.1-2). This will is at once a sustaining and shaping force that finds its fullest manifestation... | |
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Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved... 
