 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...Judge ; who thenceforth bade thee rest, And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. ' ON THE AUTHOR S BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my life is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest he returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied J " I fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...(Milton.) When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : — but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...deprivation. " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; — Doth God exact day-labor light denied ? I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. xix. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To...present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...passions, and you are freer than the Parthian king. — Abridged from TAYLOR'S ' Holy Living.' MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied F" I fondlj ask ; But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...for relief. He ordered a general fast, and made a national contribution, amounting to £40,000. XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied1?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...sounds In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 pages
...relief. He ordered a general fast, and made a national contribution, amounting to £40,000. • XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...BMNDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...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... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning... 
