 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...and sustain. And so beside the Silent Sea 1 wait the muffled oar : No harm from Him can come to m<s 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. O brothers ! if my faith is vain. If hopes like... | |
 | Future life, A. G. M. - 1878 - 256 pages
...in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar. No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. Put these words in the lips of the man who went hence with that murder and suicide on. his soul ! That... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 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 or on shore. 1 know not where His islands lilt Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His... | |
 | Olive San Louie Anderson - 1878 - 292 pages
...poems, and read " The Eternal Goodness." " How beautiful that is ! " cried Will, as she repeated : " I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." Then she read " Our Master," and Lowell's "... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner - 1878 - 152 pages
...hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies." And again : — "I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." To rebut this, and to show that the poet, in... | |
 | Franklin Samuel Bliss, Moses Marston - 1878 - 268 pages
...bind the soul to God, and by some one or more of these He holds on even to the vilest of our race. " ' I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' " And here let it be impressed upon your minds... | |
 | Freemasons. Massachusetts. Scottish rite - 1879 - 880 pages
...faith of the inspired New-England poet, when he says, — "And so, beside the Silent Se.1 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." ILL.-. BRO.-. JOHN MCCLELLAN, 33 . In the death... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1879 - 410 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. " O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1879 - 152 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 or on shore. Oh, dearest Lord, by whom are known Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 304 pages
...air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. " And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore." Put these words in the lips of the man who went hence with that murder and suicide on his soul ! That... | |
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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. 
