 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
 | Christian life - 1874 - 446 pages
...ni <Soo. —ROMANS, xii. 2. RELIGION AND LIGHT. 3cg\ IM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars C*^" To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason...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,... | |
 | mrs. Granville Ryder - 1874 - 108 pages
...Commingled well, how well they suit.' 2. ' Brief, brave and glorious, was his young career.' 3. ' Its glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.' 4. ' As a sacrifice Glad to be offered, he attends the will Of his great Father.'... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...disappear ; The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there. REASON. DIM as the borrowed beams of mocn 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 blight lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling tires discover bat the bky, Not 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... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...his case, we must admit that in practice his view has often proved correct : ' Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better day.' 3 Professor Max Miiller, Miss Cobbe, and others point to evidence in favour of Monotheism having been... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...his case, we must admit that in practice his view has often proved correct : ' Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better day.' 3 Professor Max Miiller, Miss Cobbe, and others point to evidence in favour of Monotheism having been... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...revealed religion. The opening of this'poem is singularly solemn and majestic : Reason and Religion. descended ; on the ground, Gliding meteorous, as evening mist Risen upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...Those but proclaim his style, and disappear ; The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there. REASON. 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...design 'u For one fair female, lest him half the kind. RELIGIO LAICI. AN EPISTLE. DIM as the borrow'd 76 upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...reading the Preface, the opening of the poem surprises me fresh every time : — 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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