 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest lie, returning, chide ; ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning chide : Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : " God doth not need Either man's work or His own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, — Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? I fondly ask: — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies; God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts: who best Bear his... | |
 | James Rawlings Sydnor - 1989 - 148 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide; 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his... | |
 | Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - 1993 - 376 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? I fondly ask: - But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies; God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts: who best Bear His... | |
 | George Monteiro - 2000 - 216 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his... | |
 | Griff Hogan - 2003 - 357 pages
...more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide: Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's works or His own gifts; who best Bear His... | |
 | Richard D. E. Burton - 2004 - 332 pages
...English poet, a few years younger than Herbert, she might also have discovered the following: "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his... | |
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I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean... 
