 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 Seiten
...mystery our soul abides; But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return... | |
 | Nahor Augustus Staples - 1870 - 282 Seiten
...had suddenly emerged from the clouds, and, on the summit, heaven with all its stars lay over him. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done j Not till the hours of light return,... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 Seiten
...7"E cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides, But tasks in hours of...bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return... | |
 | Elizabeth Sophia Watson - 1873 - 252 Seiten
...cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the heart resides. The spirit bloweth, and is still, lu mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." Now, in a large number of cases, religious meetings, in great measure, supply the " hours of insight... | |
 | Henry Timrod - 1873 - 206 Seiten
...eannot kindle when we will That fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth, and is still ; In mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight willed, May ~be through hours of gloom fulfilled.' "Is it not also a significant fact that the best love-verses... | |
 | Voices - 1874 - 256 Seiten
...cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still ; In mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of...bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 Seiten
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return... | |
 | 1876 - 952 Seiten
...me rather than by others if God disapproves of my doing it." In a few hours the Doctor was dead. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig, and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ' twere done. Not till the hoars of light return... | |
 | 1890 - 668 Seiten
...the most important lesson of all, — the truth so well expressed in Matthew Arnold's couplet, — " Tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." More potent to inspire holy living than any system of religious doctrine, the life of Christ shows... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 Seiten
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fultill'd. With' aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and Ihc heal Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return,... | |
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. 
