 Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.  Monthly Packet - Page 4421872Full view - About this book
 | Frances Power Cobbe - Middle East - 1864 - 234 pages
...passed away, ruin left to work his will ! Truly, I thought, Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights from Thee, And Thou, oh Lord, art more than they ! Walking up the valley I came to a different scene... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 550 pages
...out of human reach, and no interpretation of symbols, either physical or verbal, can secure it— " We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge...comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow." But is this all ? Is there nothing Absolute beyond this ? Is Knowledge not greater than what is thus... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 3 Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 268 L- M- MASON. JJTIic Kmanc of tljc fnbfefulc (Goti. T^HOU, Lord ! by mortal eyes unseen, And by... | |
 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1865 - 474 pages
...415 APP. THE COMPLETE ELOHISTIC NARRATIVE IN GENESIS ... 421 Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. "We have but faith ; we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Goodwyn Barmby - Devotional calendars - 1865 - 268 pages
...indeed, is God's word, and has an everlasting utterance. " Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be, They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 God, art more than they !" And Truth thus is more lasting than any system. The eternal speech of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be . They are but broken...comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in thee, and... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 3 Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 268 L . 1L fhr Jhnagc of tbr fnbfsfblr THOU, Lord ! by mortal eyes unseen, And by thine offspring here... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 612 pages
...they would interfere with his own copyright. In p. vi., ' Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they,' is thus closely rendered : — ' Faulisper florent humana ncgotia, sed mors Omnia communis, finis et... | |
 | 1871 - 970 pages
..." our little systems " have had their day and ceased to be, we shall know, oh, our Father ! that " They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." Mr. Lane was buried by his wife, who had been in her grave for twenty years, and Miss Lane was left... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 638 pages
...conceive how they coexist, yet we can believe that, in some manner unknown to us, they do coexist, — " They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." If this be scepticism, it is a scepticism which strangely resembles the definition given, by a distinguished... | |
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