 | Reformed Church in America - Bible - 1840 - 710 pages
...others boast how strong they be, Nor death nor danger fear ; While we confess, O Lord ! to thee, What feeble things we are. '2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, And nourish bright and gay ; A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, And fades the grass away. 3 Our life... | |
 | Grace Webster - English fiction - 1840 - 416 pages
...a house whose hospitable threshold was open to receive or welcome her back again. CHAPTER XXVII. " Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." One Sunday, when Margaret Inglis was on her way home from church, after morning service, in turning... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Bible - 1840 - 762 pages
...be, J-^ Nor death, nor danger fear ; 3ut we'll confess, O Lord, to thee, What feeble things we are. ' Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, And flourish bright and gay ; L blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, And fades the grass away. Our life contains a thousand springs,... | |
 | Thomas Cheshire (teacher of book-keeping.) - Character - 1873 - 220 pages
...head be sick and the whole heart faint," we are " immortal till our work is done," and must exclaim, " Strange that a harp of thousand strings should keep in tune so long." (See Paper No. 2, where this subject is resumed.) We know not what to say you are, because you are... | |
 | Archibald Geikie Brown - History - 1873 - 436 pages
...of day. Is this no mercy ? Shall God have no praise, and we accept it without a song? Surely not. " Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." During the present year every ticking second has been the last on earth to some o'ne, yet out of the... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - Bible - 1874 - 732 pages
...so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame ; he remembereth that we are dust. Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if...harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long ! But 'tis our God supports our frame — The God who made us first ; Salvation to the almighty Name,... | |
 | James Martineau - 1874 - 786 pages
...feeble is our mortal frame, What dying creatures we. 2 Our life contains a thousand springs; We die if one be gone: Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long ! 3 Our wasting lives grow shorter still, As months and days increase; And every beating pulse we tell... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...soon, I must slumber again." The Sluggard. Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound. A Funeral Thought. Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Booh ii. Hymn 19. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 494 pages
...If we marvel at our ill health, we also wonder at our wondrously constructed bodies, and cry — " Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long ! " We all desire this peace of body, and almost all of us can command it, presuming we are not of... | |
 | Catherine M. Buckton - 1875 - 276 pages
...exercise. A poet has said that our nerves are like a stringed instrument called a harp. He says — Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. You must often have heard people say, ' I am quite unstrung ; my nerves are shaken.' It is quite true... | |
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11 confess, O Lord, to thee, What feeble things we are. 2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, And flourish bright and gay ; A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs. And dies, if one be gone... 
