 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...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...account, lest He, returning, chide, — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies —... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...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...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V " I fondly ask : bnt Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ero x!" 'ir • days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...hare it ; and those that are fool•, la: them use their talents. Twelfth Night, i. 5. that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide. MILTON. Sonnets. • ye proud Heart-swoln, wliile in your pride ye contemplate Your talents, power,... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 330 pages
...I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ono talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest he returning, chide ; 1 Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?' I fondly ask ; but patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent8 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide; IJpth God exact day-labor, light denied?" 1 fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent v,t mu™ur. soon... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...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 useless, though...chide; 'Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?' I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's work,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent9 winch is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth run need Either man's work,... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - Lynchburg (Va.) - 1858 - 364 pages
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide ; ' Doth God exact day labor, 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... 
