And so beside the Silent Sea, I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads - Page 4361898Full view - About this book
| Christian life - 1873 - 350 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And, O dear Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I c.innot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If ho|€s... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...knows that he may trust his Father's affection, and in every trial he may exclaim with the poet : " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Another of the altars of childhood is the altar... | |
| Education - 1898 - 416 pages
...birch and lern, A sweeter memory blow; And there in spring the veeries sing The songs of long ago. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Trochee: 8s and 7s. Life is real! Life is earnest!... | |
| Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. • 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 609 CM WATTS. it! on vii not liir TDnnrt rti.... | |
| 1878 - 626 pages
...beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." This for the individual ; — and for the race... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1867 - 184 pages
...beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like... | |
| English fiction - 1879 - 612 pages
...speak of, my eye chanced to light first on ' No harm from Him can come to me. On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.' Mr. Blair did not come into our car again till... | |
| Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867 - 322 pages
...great ocean, and find new worlds beyond ? Perhaps it was still reserved for Armstrong to say — " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Only there are still shipwrecks on all waters.... | |
| American periodicals - 1867 - 850 pages
...the pilent sea. I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me, On n.viin or on shore. ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. • ' О brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes... | |
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