 | Douglas Veitch - 1882 - 394 pages
...conquers reason still. I He who knows nothing knows enough if he knows when to be silent. Ij April 10. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. — Aubrey de Vere. Guard against the tendency to imagine that there is an end of all felicity upon... | |
 | Day - 1883 - 216 pages
...and cheerfully obey. ANONYMOUS. AUGUST 23. AS many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. — REV. iii. 19. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him. . . . Grief should be Like Joy, majestic, equable, sedate — Confirming, cleansing, raising, making... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 340 pages
...do and bear Thy will, Till the morning light shall shine, Shepherd mine ! FROM THE GERMAN. SONNET. each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming, cleansing,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1884 - 396 pages
...sweepings : you catch sight of it just as it flies away from you, and gets buried again. Mrs. Whitney. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Aubrey de Vere. WE often fail by searching far and wide For what lies close at hand. To serve our turn... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1885 - 138 pages
...receive the message our Father sends to us in it, and the benediction it brings to us from heaven. "Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...courtesy receive him; rise and bow, And ere his shadow cross thy threshold crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. Allow No cloud of passion to... | |
 | Stray thoughts, E L - 1885 - 118 pages
...them Is valour too. — Ben Jonson. 23. ON their own merits modest men are dumb. — G. Caiman. 24. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow. Aubrey de Vere. 28. THEY that chant and resound Heavenly praises confound and destroy the voices and... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...and strife, All train thy soul for heaven. MATILDA STURGE. tyoto to meec affliction. x'qitcmlicr 14. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to ihee, do thou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow, And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 424 pages
...wove Or to await some more transcendent dower From heaven descending on her like a dove. LXL SORROW. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumalt to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness ; Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate... | |
 | J. C. Street - 1887 - 658 pages
...returns to its originator. The suicide of the Soul is to think evil and hate with envy and revenge. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee, and do thou with courtesy receive it. Grief should be like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; confirming,... | |
 | J. C. Street - 1887 - 710 pages
...returns to its originator. The suicide of the Soul is to think evil and hate with envy and revenge. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee, and do thou with courtesy receive it. Grief should be like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; confirming,... | |
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COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou... 
