 STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary...  Columbian Historical Novels - Page 144by John Roy Musick - 1895Full view - About this book
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 524 pages
...spirit, and from a far serener life. — " Stem daughter of the voice of God ! 0, Duty ! if that "ame thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...sorrowful waste That is to be pass'd In the way to the Canaan above. William Wordsworth. ODE TO DUTY. STERN daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow ! ODE TO DUTY.— Wordsworth. STERN daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | 1863 - 220 pages
...on it, and thinks again : Brings thy Saviour's death no gain ? Ode to Duty. 143 ODE TO DUTY. JTERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty ! if that name...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1863 - 320 pages
...now humble parts were to be enacted. CHAPTER XII. ' Stern daughter of the voice of God ! Oh, duty 1 If that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law, When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | 1864 - 334 pages
...With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. ODE TO DUTY. STERN daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. HW LONGFELLOW, 1807 American. ODE TO DUTY. STERN daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st... | |
 | 1901 - 834 pages
...whenever it has been violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us grace to perform it." " Stern daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty! if that...guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - 422 pages
...apostrophize that by which alone life can be redeemed from contempt : " Stern daughter of the voice of God, 0 duty, if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law "When earthly terrors overawe ; Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1895 - 526 pages
...Piety, no waterish term of pitiful soft-heartedness, but the Stern daughter of the voice of God, ...... a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; and a sure deliverance from present doubt and temptation. A quality great as this, lying dormant... | |
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