 Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,...  Entering on Life: A Book for Young Men - Page 197by Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 pages
...wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul ; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere,... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimm'ring ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere;... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...trav'elers' Is Reason to the soul 1 and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light, as here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. — DRYDEN. O unexpected stroke ! worse than of Death ! Must I leave thee,... | |
 | 1863 - 612 pages
...the poem, and the whole of The Hind and Panther, are but expansions of it " Dim as the borrowed light of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere,... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 pages
...them not trust solely to reasoning, but look more to religion's guidance ; for " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering,...ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But to guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright Lord ascends... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 pages
...the aids of heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour. J. Logan III THE WRITTEN WORD LIU THE BIBLE DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pages
...man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth . RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...period arriving when we may see realized those beautiful and powerful words of a great poet : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord aseends our hemisphere,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...with thy summer feast, JOHN DRYDEN. Born, 1631 ; Died, 1701. EEASON AND EELIGION. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
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