 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To...  Work, Or, Plenty to Do and how to Do it - Page 14by Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 pages
...Christian Year." [,See Hymn 638, Martineau's Hymn Book,~\ VEESE 13. We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell,— Nor...ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : VERSE 14. The trivial round, the common task. Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny... | |
 | George Bellett - 1856 - 290 pages
...practical wisdom on this subject in these two verses of the Morning Hymn in the " Christian Year," " We need not bid for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour,...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask: Boom to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." and that must be a mistaken piety,... | |
 | John Keble - 1856 - 406 pages
...would all around us rise! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along Life's dullest dreariest walk! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Boom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more; content with these,... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...our hearts with wisdom talk Along Life's dullest dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloister' d cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these,... | |
 | Willoughby William T. Balfour - 1856 - 366 pages
...countless price God will provide for sacrifice. We need not bid for cloistered cell, Our neighbours, and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves...trivial round, the common task Would furnish all, that we can ask. Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. Seek we no more, content... | |
 | Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett - 1856 - 136 pages
...hymn I remember,— " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour or our work farewell, Or strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath...the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Eoom to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God."—Keble. But, mamma, I think this ia... | |
 | 1857 - 794 pages
...interested, as you say we ought to be, in our daily engagements ? " " Do you remember these lines, Clara ? 4 We need not bid, for cloister*d cell, Our neighbour...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all vre ought to ask,—« Boom to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us doily nearer God.' SECbET ГКАТЕЕ.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...our hearts with wisdom talk, Along Life's dullest, dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive...ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. 230 The trivial round, the Common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1857 - 376 pages
...the prayer, " Give us this day our daily bread." " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky." Here, then, is suggested the doctrine of our text. The great question of theologians has been, —... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 pages
...impropriety of adding more food as a palliative." Every man has need to be forgiven. Earth and Heaven. WE need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell : The trivial round, the common task, May furnish all we ought to ask, — Room to deuy ourselves,... | |
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