 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
 | George Rolleston - Anatomy, Comparative - 1870 - 482 pages
...division, the Haematocrya, unworthy of being quoted here : — ' 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.' TENNYSON, In MemoHam, vi. Striking evidence is borne to the scientific... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 pages
...suspect, only the old heathen materialism cropping out, — " 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." — In Memoriam. No artists or authors have ever pictured or described... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870 - 628 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 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 ;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 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 lights of thee, And thon, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we... | |
 | 1897 - 1272 pages
...other method — living by faith — might be dismissed at once as the idle dream of a visionarj." We have but faith, we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see, says Tennyson, as if knowledge were superior to faith. If knowledge is of things we see, and if faith... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...why, He thinks he was not made to die. 1 1553 In Memoriam AHH Our little systems have their day; They 1 1 554 In Memoriam AHH I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That... | |
 | Religion - 2001 - 242 pages
...ours, 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...lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. When In Memoriam was published in 1850, it was regarded as having a message of hope and affirmation... | |
 | Tom A. Steffen, Fredrick Douglas Pennoyer - Religion - 2001 - 280 pages
...himself, his person and will. As Alfred Lord Tennyson said, 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. — "In Memoriam" Challenges of Care Giving Chapter 4 Caring for a Camcorder Culture Paul Metzer In... | |
 | Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...dulcet tones. There's nobody like Tennyson to talk about this. 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.4 This is an appeal to invest in what we called exotic research. But what are now called mysteries... | |
 | Patrick H. McDonald - Technology & Engineering - 2001 - 552 pages
...all of life, the poets have the last — the best — words: "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. " Alfred Lord Tennyson IN MEMORIAM 1850 1.6 EOS 60S The system is quiet... | |
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