 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 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...account, lest He, returning, chide ; — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, —... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...died ; Then point to realms of cloudless day, And wipe the latest tear away. 194. On His Blindness. 9 (Milton.) When I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : — but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "... | |
 | 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...light denied ? I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts ; who best Bear His... | |
 | 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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 604 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...light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, iu 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-labour, light denied F" I fondlj ask ; But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God... | |
 | 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...account, lest he returning chide ; "Doth God exact day labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 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...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 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...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied1?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...BIJNDNESS. 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-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
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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... 
