 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1311851Full view - About this book
 | M H S - 1879 - 392 lehte
...thou mine unbelief. MARK ix. 24. I FALTRR 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | 1882 - 638 lehte
...chanting, " Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees " ; when I see Tennyson "Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God " ; and listen while he cries, " I stretch lame hands ol faith, and grope, And faintly trust the larger... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1879 - 458 lehte
...experience, when we hear him saying, — " 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1880 - 356 lehte
...often "brings but one to bear : " 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Daniel Moore - 1880 - 436 lehte
...that part which I do not see ; — some angel of God, it may be, carrying on his unseen ministries, " Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God." 3. The only other point I deem it needful to enforce, in vindicating the use of these special prayers,... | |
 | William Edward Winks - 1881 - 290 lehte
...shall be given him. — James i. 5. 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 lehte
...She often brings but one to bear, 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is LOBD... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1881 - 466 lehte
...in it all." Still, for one, — " 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 gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 lehte
...often brings but one to bear — I falter where I firmly trod ; And, falling with my weight of cares . I I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | 1882 - 810 lehte
...from any of us. But now she remembered, and, like a little child falling, with its Weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs. That slope through darkness up to God, this young girl lifted up to Heaven the pitiful "cry of the human." She could say very little. Her... | |
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