...of waste, or unworkable material ? As the poet says of Nature : — " I considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear." When staying one autumn at a small but pretty watering-place in North Wales, I paid almost daily visits...

...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, strength, SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness...

...of the same mystery which tortured the ancient patriarch, thus describes his faith in doubt : — " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stain. That slope through darkness up to God, " I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And...

...carefnl of the type she seems. So careless of the single life ; That I, cousidering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often hrings hnt one to hear, I falter where I flrmiy trod. And fnlling with my weight of cares Uixin the...

...and comfort each other by the hope that we may yet, unscathed and unharmed, ascend, hand in hand, ' Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ? ' " But I would not have myself misunderstood. If you have any serious objection to become my friend,...

...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering- everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty...but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod And faintly trust the larger hope." " The larger hope," seen to he inconsistent with the analogies of nature,...

...love. What a beautiful image about Prayer also is contained in this stanza from In Memoriam : — " I falter, where I firmly trod, And falling, with my...cares, Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." The sloping of the altar-stairs of prayer through the darkness of earth...

...this ceaseless destruction of life also part and parcel of nature's constitution ? Can we explain, Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, — merely by that procedure which the poet describes as stretching out ' lame hands of faith' ? Or...

...doubt, an experience so well described by the poet, with Bethel for the foreground and imagery, — " I falter where I firmly trod ; And falling with my weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God : " I stretch lame hands of faith,...

...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering every where Her secret meaning in her deeds. And finding that of fifty seeds She often brines but one to bear — THE SLEEP. 719 I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight...