 These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had...  Poems - Page 71by Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 1070 pages
...the mouth of the Fool, and which sinks into the heart of the King, ought to be oftener on our lips : The ill-timed truth we might have kept— Who knows...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all: But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall ! The blunders of the good... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the sin; but, Lord, Be merciful...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all; But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 pages
...well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. ; : "The ill-timed truth we might hare kept, — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?...faults no tenderness should ask, .... . The chastening stripe must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heavrn we... | |
 | 1883 - 804 pages
...merciful to me, a fool 1 " 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep » Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from..."Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripe must cleanse them all >, But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we... | |
 | 1907 - 682 pages
...powerfully impressive. ' Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; ' Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. Earth bears no balsam for... | |
 | 1885 - 466 pages
...of a friend. 14 The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung I M The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our b^bj^ders -*>oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 134 pages
...peace is here. THE FOOL'S PRAYER. HE royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried : " Sir Fool, Kneel...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...merciful to me, a fool ! " 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, О Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleause them all ; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1888 - 332 pages
...there is no limit to the pain and the harm which angry and ugly words can produce in gentle hearts. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung ?" It would be easy to extend this portrayal of the evils of bad temper, but it will be more profitable... | |
 | 1888 - 596 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept,...ask. The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders — Oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam... | |
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