 | 1902 - 880 pages
...element in life : — " 'T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, О Lord, we stay ; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend." These are the deeper notes of Sill's message, and to some measure color all his work. Yet they do not... | |
 | 1902 - 1024 pages
...element in life : — " T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, 0 Lord, we stay ; T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...heaven away. " These clumsy feet still in the mire, Qo crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings... | |
 | United States. 87th Cong., 2d sess., 1962 - 1963 - 202 pages
...friend had been in the heat of Senate debate. BOB KERR leaned back in his chair and recited these words: These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...have kept Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung l The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung i It impressed me so much... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! " Tis not hy guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; Tis hy our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven..."These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing hlossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend.... | |
 | Stephen W. Hines - 2013 - 344 pages
...and that I must have hurt her. Again and from the bottom of my heart, I prayed 'The Fool's Prayer," These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 0 Lord, be merciful to me, a fool. As we grow old enough to have a proper perspective, we see such... | |
 | 1899 - 356 pages
...to me, a fool ! •' 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep I If truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...truth we might have kept, — Who knows how sharp il pierced and stung ? The word we had not sense to say, — Who knows how grandly it had rung ? "... | |
 | 1912 - 88 pages
...merciful to me, a fooll '"Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, 0 Lord, we stay; ' Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Wbo knows how sharp it pierced and stung"? The word we had not sense to say — W bo knows how... | |
 | 1907 - 732 pages
...the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold^the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy feet, still...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "JThe ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung I The word we... | |
 | Ellen G. White
...themselves, and God declares that this sentence is just. He accepts their own verdict against themselves. "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...hands we thrust Among the heartstrings of a friend." {125} NOT JUDGING, BUT DOING "WHY BEHOLDEST THOU THE MOTE THAT IS IN THY BROTHER'S EYE?" MATTHEW 7:3.... | |
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Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'Tig by our follies that so long "We hold the earth from heaven away. 
