 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1893 - 416 pages
...for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? THE HUSBANDMAN GOES FORTH TO SOW. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. And ours the grateful service whence Comes, day by day, the recompense ; The hope, the trust, the purpose... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 pages
...offer, you will finfl a million hearts around you that need it. 9O6 Enconragemnt. LM IT mav not he our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ;...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. 3 And were this life the utmost span, The only end and aim of man, Better the toil of fields like these... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 602 pages
...offer, you will find a million hearts around you that need it. 9O6 Encouragement. LM IT may not be onr lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. 2 Yet ours the grateful service whence Comes, day by day, the recompense: The hope, the trust, the... | |
 | 1893 - 964 pages
...remembered, those who depart have an interest in what is accomplished by them who abide a little longer. " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field, Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reapers' song among the sheaves. " Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 582 pages
...deems it not its own reward ? Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed, is done 1 And ours the grateful service whence Comes day by day the recompense ; The hope, the trust, the purpose... | |
 | G. Steel - 1894 - 320 pages
...leaves, Shall spread a plenty o'er the land In rich and yellow sheaves. — Drennan. 4. It may not Tie our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ;...God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, 5. (1) Then rose from sea to sky the v/i\A farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 592 pages
...deems it not its own reward ? Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task U wrought In unison with God'» great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is... | |
 | John Badcock - 1894 - 98 pages
...other. For the duties of peer and peasant may clash like those of the lion and sheep. Says Whittier : " Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done ! No doubt. But the question presses : What is our "duty's task"? On Hospital Saturday the Salvationist... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 pages
...deems it not its own reward ? Who, for it« trials, counts it less A cause of praise und thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er U willed, is done I And ours the grateful service whence Comes day by day the recompense ; The hope,... | |
 | William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...deems it not its own reward ? Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatso'er is willed, is done! And ours the grateful service whence Comes, day by day, the recompense;... | |
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It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er... 
