Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When... The Poetical Works - Page 113by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1867 - 386 pages
...limbs to life and health again. HOPE, DOUBT, AND TRUST. ALFRED TENNYSON. — " IN MEMORIAM." O, YET we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal...walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is... | |
| William White - 1867 - 704 pages
...trust that good shall fall ' At kst—far off—at last, to all, ' And every winter change to spring. ' That nothing walks with aimless feet; ' That not one...the void, ' When God hath made the pile complete.' 'The Lord cannot act against the Laws of tlte Divine 'Providence, because to act against them would... | |
| 1867 - 590 pages
...councils thunder anathemas " against him, and utters in "In Memoriam" his own belief: — " Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal...sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood : * With Origen, who has often been reproached with introducing into the creed of Christians the thought... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell. tin. OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal...pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.... | |
| Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...courage — rising to tbe general problem of the relation of evil to good ; what shall we say? " Oh, yet we trust that, somehow, good Will be the final goal...walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete. *•*»«** " Behold,... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1868 - 650 pages
...Tennyson timidly, yet impressively, warbles, in mourning the death of his beloved friend : — " O, yet we trust that, somehow, good Will be the final goal...walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; * Lam. iii. 33. "... | |
| John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1868 - 380 pages
...the grace which has been given us to resist temptation, and the use which we have made of it. Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal...nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life will be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; — That... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1868 - 670 pages
...mourning the death of his beloved friend: — " O, yet we trust that, somehow, good Will be the final god of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects...walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; * Lam. iii. 33. .... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1868 - 918 pages
...beloved friend : — " O, yet we trust that, somehow, good • Will be the final goal of ill, To pnnirs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints...walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; * Lam. iii. 33. "... | |
| John Pentland Mahaffy - 1869 - 332 pages
...afforded the theme, I may say, of his noblest poem — the subject of his noblest utterances : — "Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal...walks with aimless feet, That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete. " Behold we know not... | |
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