But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Legends and lyrics - Seite 7von Adelaide Anne Procter - 1861 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dickens - 1861 - 482 Seiten
...lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret ; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, t We always may be what we might have been. : Since good, though only thought, has life and breath,... | |
| 1863 - 632 Seiten
...Cromwell's death-bed questions in a not very theological manner, when she says, — we quote from memory, " No star is ever lost we once have seen — We always may be what we might have been." And now, taking the poems in the order in which they stand, we come to the principal one of the collection,... | |
| 1863 - 378 Seiten
...lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait Ready for us to fill it, soon or...have seen; We always may be what we might have been. The good, though only thought, has life and breath; God's life can always be redeemed from death; And... | |
| Maria Hall - 1871 - 190 Seiten
...accept her maxim in a universal sense, but for you it is true. While we live, " Our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. " The man that went to work in the vineyard at the eleventh hour, received also a penny.' ' Then, by... | |
| Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 342 Seiten
...career of usefulness, perhaps of fame, atone for the earlier and wasted portions of his manhood ; — " No star is ever lost we once have seen ; We always may be what we might have been : Since evil in its nature is decay, And any hour can blot it all away." The exchange, of one arena of life... | |
| Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 346 Seiten
...career ol usefulness, perhaps of fame, atone for the earlier and wasted portions of his manhood ; — "No star is ever lost we once have seen ; We always may be what we might have been : Since evil in its nature is decay, And any hour can blot it all away." The exchange of one arena of life... | |
| Costless choir - 1877 - 66 Seiten
...lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vain regret. But still, our place is kept, and it will wait Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. Since good, though only thought, has life and breath, GOD'S life — can always be redeem'd from death.... | |
| Threefold basis - 1879 - 158 Seiten
...their place as members of the spiritual body. " But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Beady for us to fill it, soon or late ; No star is ever...Since good, though only thought, has life and breath ; And evil in its nature is decay, And any hour can blot it all away." While it is true, as above stated,... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 Seiten
...of God lives through eternity, And conquers all !" Still our place is kept, and it will wait, Eeady for us to fill it, soon or late, No star is ever lost...Good, though only thought, has life and breath, God's lif e can always be redeemed from death, And evil in its nature is decay, And any hour can blot it... | |
| Emma C. Currier - 1880 - 260 Seiten
...lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live Idle in a vain regret. But still our place is kept, and it will wait. Ready for us to fill it, soon or...have seen, We always may be what we might have been." NEW YORK: ADELAIDE: PROCTOB. THE AUTHORS' PUBLISHING COMPANY, 27 BOND STREET. 1 COPTBIOHT, 1880, BT... | |
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