 | New Church gen. confer - 1870 - 596 páginas
...radiance of eternity." And they recall the verse of " In Memorian," conveying an analogous idea — " Our little systems have their day ; They have their...lights of thee. And thou, O Lord, art more than they." " Speak to Him than for ffe hears, and spirit with spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1891 - 776 páginas
...nameless Thought, the nameless Power, the super-personal Heart," — " it shall repose alone on that." " Our little systems have their day ; They have their...lights of thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." Over all, enclosing all, beyond all, and all in all, is love : nobler, diviner, grander than noblest... | |
 | 1860 - 1072 páginas
...dedicated, will be in any degree jeopardized by changes like those advocated in these Essays and Reviews. Our little systems have their day ; They have their...be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. WDW WHEAT AND TAEES. CHAPTEE XXIL A NEW PBOFESSOB. A MONG the trim buildings... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 páginas
...supremacy should come to an end, and that India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their...be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord ! art more than they." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine beneficence... | |
 | 1870 - 406 páginas
...when we have done all which love and intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " Our little systems have their day — They have their...be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1866 - 734 páginas
...therein. Human agency is short-lived, the divine kingdom is eteml As Tennyson has well said : — " Our little systems have their day, They have their...be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they." " No man is necessary," declared Napoleon ; and so it is. The is never... | |
 | 1850 - 590 páginas
...first of living English poets opens his last great work (in refreshing contrast to the book before " Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And thon, О Lord, art more than they." M'E. 536 Pastoral Recollections and Gleanings. 537 PASTORAL RECOLLECTIONS... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 páginas
...holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 páginas
...holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
 | 1850 - 550 páginas
...God, which gives strength and ground to trust the infinite unknown. Thus in the prefatory poem : — " Our little systems have their day ; They have their...of thee, — And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
