 | 1872 - 264 pages
...gifts he gave, And plead his love, for love. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar : I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air : I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pages
...surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies.' ' And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me, On ocean...where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean...where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. " And so beside the silent sea 1 wait the muffled, oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore." " How often we forget to thank God for the present blessings he is loading us with, while we are anticipating... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean...where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1874 - 158 pages
...not gone on, wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, — I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care ! ' It is not said that the disciples went... | |
 | 1875 - 444 pages
...surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean...where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift , Beyond His love and care. —Whittier. WRECKED. THE storm-king rides upon... | |
 | 1875 - 606 pages
...beautifully expressed by the noblest of American poets : •' And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me On ocean...where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." But they know even more than this. They know... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - 1875 - 400 pages
...His mercy underlies. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm can come from him to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. ETERNAL God, who hast neither dawn nor evening,... | |
 | George Thomas Carpenter - 1875 - 484 pages
...the Father of us all ? Surely the infinite and eternal Father will take care of all his children. " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." Now, as I have but a few moments left before... | |
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And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 
