 These clumsy feet, still in the 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 kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung The word we had...  Pacific Educational Journal - Page 251888Full view - About this book
 | Augustus White Long - 1905 - 382 pages
...hands we thrust Among the heartstrings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — 5 Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ! The word...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; 10 But for our blunders — • Oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth bears no... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1912 - 334 pages
...blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 24 " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung! 2% " Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1905 - 472 pages
...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 kept...how sharp it pierced and stung! . The word we had notjtense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung! "Our faults no tenderness should ask. The chastening... | |
 | 1905 - 494 pages
...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 kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung I The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung ! "Our faults no tenderness... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 338 pages
...sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say— Who knows how grandly it had rung! 28 " Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all; But for our blunders—oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. 32 " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...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 kept,...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
...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 kept...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... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - 1906 - 1252 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 468 pages
...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 kept...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... | |
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