 | 1851 - 496 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodged with nie useless, though iny 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... | |
 | Kenneth C. Steven - 2001 - 86 pages
...one Talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...[1648] 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...account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...16 When I consider how my light is spent,0 Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,0 And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide,0 Doth God exact day-labour, light denied,0 I fondly ask; but patience to prevent0 That murmur,... | |
 | Griff Hogan - 2003 - 357 pages
...one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my 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... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...Blindness 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...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... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 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...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... | |
 | 2005 - 334 pages
...Blindness" 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,...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... | |
 | John Bailey - 2003 - 177 pages
...sestet When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my day, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless,...account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth... | |
 | Erik Kolbell - 2004 - 186 pages
...wrote: 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 useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my Maker . . .2 The poem wasn'ta big hit with the church. This kind of questioning... | |
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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... 
