 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1837 - 188 pages
...slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there. And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of..." Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the Apostle's arm And... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1837 - 266 pages
...slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of..." Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the Apostle's arm And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 pages
...slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of...Suffer it to be so now ; . . For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the apostle's arm,... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...to go in. But Johu forhade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Masler ! I have need of thine, Not thou of mine !" And Jesus,...met his earnest looks, And answered, " .Suffer it to he so now; For thus it doth hecome me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, Ife... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1859 - 290 pages
...slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of...smile Of heavenly sadness, met his earnest looks, And answer'd, "Suffer it to be so now; For thus it doth become me to fulfill All righteousness." And, leaning... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1848 - 504 pages
...slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of...smile Of heavenly sadness, met his earnest looks, And answer'd, " Sufler it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And,... | |
 | 1854 - 452 pages
...yet The words were on his lips, he raised his eyes, And on the bank stood Jesus 1 He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet, and stayed him there, And said, " Nay, Master 1 I have need of thine, Not thou of mine!" And Jesus with a smile Of heavenly sadness, met his earnest... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1866 - 390 pages
...slightncss, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, "Nay, master! I have need of thine, Not thou of mine I" And Jesus, with a smilo Of heavenly sadness, met his earnest looks, And answer'd, " Suffer it to... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1867 - 548 pages
...forbade, And hurried to his feet and stay'd him there, And said, " Nay, Master, I have need of thine, NTot thou of mine!" And Jesus, with a smile Of heavenly sadness, met his earnest looks, And answer'd, " Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfill All righteousness." And,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1882 - 392 pages
...with a mantis, and His perfect limbs, In their angelic slightness, meek and bare, He waited to go in. But John forbade, And hurried to His feet and stayed...there, And said, " Nay, Master ! I have need of Thine, I 46 BAPTISte 9F CHRIST. Net Thou of mine ! " A&J Jesus, with a smile1 Of heavenly sadness, met his... | |
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Suffer it to be so now ; For thus it doth become me to fulfil All righteousness." And, leaning to the stream, He took around him the Apostle's arm And drew him gently to the midst. The wood Was thick with the dim twilight as they came Up from the water.... 
