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" And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. "
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 377
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 430 pages
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

1873 - 350 pages
...reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or...islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And, O dear Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6

1867 - 796 pages
...condensed in the following verses: — "And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore....islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I c.innot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If ho|€s like these betray...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 206

1895 - 862 pages
...to indicate that he could have been the anthor of poems such as that in which the verse occurs, — I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. He seemed to me a man devoted to society, and especially to...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

1881 - 792 pages
...knows that he may trust his Father's affection, and in every trial he may exclaim with the poet : " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Another of the altars of childhood is the altar of love....
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 28

1898 - 416 pages
...birch and lern, A sweeter memory blow; And there in spring the veeries sing The songs of long ago. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Trochee: 8s and 7s. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 66

1890 - 880 pages
...contemplated the mysteries of life and death : — " And ao beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore." Substitutes — I can forgive the audacity Wanted. remark of tne Contributor's friend, but I lift up...
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Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home: With Selections of Psalms

Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 pages
...reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 4 And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. • 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond...
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Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1883 - 618 pages
...which he kindly repeated to me when we last met : " And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or ou shore. * 1 know not whore His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 20-23

1866 - 578 pages
...reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronted palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. And O, dear Lord, by whom...
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Words Commemorative of Henry Bigelow: Spoken on Thursday, Jan. 25, in Eliot ...

Edward James Young - 1866 - 42 pages
...Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronted balms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care." I never knew one more...
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