 | 1863 - 380 pages
...falter where I firmly trod, And, tolling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaflj and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Carlyle's Gospel... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1863 - 338 pages
...infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. * * * * " I falter where I firmly trod ; And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope And... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1863 - 212 pages
...? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God," (Isa. 1. 10.) . . . . " Fall with thy weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." * And yet again : " Come unto me, ALL ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,"... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, 1 falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pages
...meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter wncrc I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-steirs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...pleasure iuto a staggering chase, that this passage, every word of which is vital, becomes real : " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of caret Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness unto God, I stretch lame hands... | |
 | 1866 - 588 pages
...agitation, and leading us with all our weight of care to fall, with uplifted hands and holy resignation, Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God. " Those who have undergone but slight alterations of their present state, remove but slightly, and... | |
 | Laura Preston - 1867 - 454 pages
...slave, trying in vain to silence doubts which had never troubled their minds before. CHAPTER XXIX. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God; I stretch Inme bunds of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, * I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
