 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown - 1906 - 752 pages
...the poem in his hymn-book but without any singing-supplement to the words. WHITTIER'S SERVICE SONG. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the harvest field. If this stanza and the four following do not reveal all the strength of John G. Whittier's... | |
 | 1880 - 846 pages
...till you can speak calmly, whatever may be the provocation. Words do lots of mischief. IT MAY NOT BE. IT may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done. And ours the grateful service whence Comes, day by day, the recompense ; The hope, the trust, the purpose... | |
 | 1907 - 1032 pages
...actual beginning of the full life of the College : 290 Semi-C entennial of the Columbia Institution. " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. But where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend... | |
 | Amos Elwood Corning - 1907 - 239 pages
...the hymns sung was No. 602 in the Methodist collection, the words being written by John G. Whittier: "It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened Held; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves The reapers' song among the sheaves. "Yet where our duty's task... | |
 | Walter Ashbel Sellew - 1907 - 350 pages
...though the day was only a little cool. CHAPTER XXXIV. OPENING THE NEW MISSION — "JOURNEY'S END." It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripening field ; Nor ours to hear on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. Yet where our... | |
 | Carrs Lane Congregational Church (Birmingham, England) - 1908 - 822 pages
...it not its own reward ? Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? 2 It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. 3 Yet where OUT duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend... | |
 | 1908 - 366 pages
...• — f~~ zfe a — r~ ri — S • -h SI — F — -t — U — f i ! — tEd SERVICE FOR OTHERS Nor ours to hear, on sum-mer eves, The reap-er's song a-mong the sheaves. The hope, the trust, the pur-pose stayed , The fountain.and the noon-day shade. Bet-ter the toil of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1910 - 520 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 ! And ours the grateful service whence Comes day by day the recompense ; The hope, the" trust, the... | |
 | William Channing Gannett - 1911 - 194 pages
...Beyond our vision weak and dim, Beholds the end of what is sown; The harvest-time is hid with him. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed, is done! n-: Be ours the grateful service whence Comes, day by day, the recompense. — The hope, the trust,... | |
 | Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - 1911 - 356 pages
...into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty, we shall know one day as truth. 55. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done. 56. There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like the... | |
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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... 
