 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Act I. Sc. 2. L. 426. U Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, О Lord, we stay; Tis oi ch'entrate. Abandon hope, all ye ER SuÄf—The Fool's Prayer. He has spent all his Ufe in letting down empty buckets into empty wells,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! "'T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 24 " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ! The word... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1923 - 552 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! " 'T is not by guilt the onward sweep 10 Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth...still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; is These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! " 'T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, О Lord, we stay; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth...still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; (Concluded on next page) greatness. It was native in him to rejoice in the successes of other men at... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pages
...merciful to me, a fool ! "'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! " 'T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. our best for Stevenson. To him each writer amongst us — small or more than small — hadc been proud... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1924 - 1118 pages
...own discovery of truth? 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 'Tis by our follies that so long • We hold the earth from heaven away." Let us follow the plan of the searchers of the original lilac, that we may know whether these ideals... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pages
...merciful to me, a fool! "Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we_ thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1927 - 712 pages
...merciful to me, a fool ! 1 " Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 7 "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1927 - 520 pages
...rod must heal the sin ; but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! ' "'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep ' "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 7 "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we... | |
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No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin: but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! 
