 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 336 pages
...— "Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright; The screws reversed (a task which, if he please, God in a moment executes with case), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment...go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power aiid use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Baptists - 1881 - 212 pages
...— " Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed (a task which, if He please, God in a moment...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Baptists - 1881 - 208 pages
...elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed (a task which, if lie please, God in a moment executes with ease), Ten thousand...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease) Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease) Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...— Man is a harp whose cord* eludo the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Clark Bell - Law - 1892 - 516 pages
...mind is— " A harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed, (a task which, if He please, God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand times ten thousand strings go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use." And the following... | |
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Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,)... 
