WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning... English Lessons, for Schoolroom Use - Page 40by Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my .soul more , beat To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; " Doth God...light denied ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need *'Either man's work, or his own gifts; .whprbest **... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; " Doth God...light denied ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need " Either man's work, or his own gifts; who best " Bear... | |
| Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...blindness. , *V HEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide. And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...bide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied i' I fondly ask : but, Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark worm and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, ana present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...Almighty. " When t consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...ISHntmess. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...ISUnBiusa. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...MmtfntsS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, retarning, chide, ' Doth God... | |
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