 These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heartstrings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not...  Best Things from Best Authors... - Page 131905Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 902 pages
...follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy f«et still in the mire, Qo crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend." These are the deeper notes of Sill's message, and to some measure color all his work. Yet they do not... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 pages
...• We hold the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing blosspms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust...heart-strings of a friend. ; : "The ill-timed truth we might hare kept, — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say, — .; .•... | |
 | 1883 - 804 pages
...truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing..."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... | |
 | 1885 - 466 pages
...truth and light, O Lord, we stay; T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings 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... | |
 | George F. Crook - 1885 - 106 pages
...truth and right, O LORD, we stay; T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from Heaven away. These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...hands we thrust Among the heart.strings of a friend. Our faults no tenderness should ask; The chastening stripes must cleanse them all. But for our blunders!... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1886 - 474 pages
...and light, O Lord, we stay; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung 1 The word we had not sense... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 136 pages
...and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; jt Men crown the knave, and scourge the , tool | That did... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...truth and right, О Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...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
...truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...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... | |
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