 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
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 pages
...which have their heroes obscure heroes who are sometimes grander than the heroes who win renown 25. The ill-timed truth we might have kept Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung 2. Parenthetical Expressions. Explanatory Words and Phrases. The dash is used before and after a parenthetical... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - 1906 - 1252 pages
...who suffered it, and that after all our hearts were really better than our deeds could ever show. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire. Go crushing...sense to say, Who knows how grandly it had rung!" Now, in this common experience of our daily lives we are exactly in Peter's situation. Peter had denied... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...is the power of really getting at what is near so that we help it to grow instead of stepping on it. "These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing...sense to say, Who knows how grandly it had rung?"* IV The imaginative man is often taunted with being unpractical, largely perhaps because the man without... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 458 pages
...and right, O Lord, we stay ; 3 T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung ? u Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 468 pages
...stay; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. 276 THE FOOL'S PRAYER " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rurig ? " Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 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 we might have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung ! The word we had not... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - 1907 - 264 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...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. It is thus with our Ingratitude. We have no desire to be brutal. As a matter of fact, we tell ourselves,... | |
 | John Henry McCormick - 1907 - 886 pages
...self-confidence is felt when on such occasions we realize our ignorance of the right thing to be done, and "These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heartstrings of a friend." And yet how comparatively easy this knowledge is of acquisition and what a power for good it makes... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 360 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...kept, — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? "Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripe must cleanse them all; But for our blunders,... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1908 - 296 pages
...truth and light, 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...heart-strings of a friend. ' ' The ill-timed truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung, The word we had not sense to say —... | |
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