 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes. Samoa Agmitta, 67. SONNET ON HIS OWN BLINDNESS.* When I consider...hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My trne account, lest He, returning, chide; " Doth God... | |
 | Francis Wharton - History - 1859 - 396 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...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask : but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either marts work,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Old age in literature - 1859 - 326 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...returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied 3" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - American essays - 1859 - 322 pages
...consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ono talent which ia death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul...returning, chide; 'Doth God exact day-labor, light deniedf* I fondly ask ; but patience to prevent That murmur soon replies, ' God doth not need Either... | |
 | English poetry - 1859 - 128 pages
...consider Low 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? " 1 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... 
