 And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 810edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Christian life - 1873 - 350 pages
...beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And, O dear Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Oh, give me grace,... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar ; Xo harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I c.innot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If ho|€s like these betray... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...the abounding grace of his God. As the poet says, BO said Mr. Stephens : — " I know not where those islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar, Assured no harm can come to... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...knows that he may trust his Father's affection, and in every trial he may exclaim with the poet : " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Another of the altars of childhood is the altar of love. Everywhere in Scripture... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 404 pages
...birch and lern, A sweeter memory blow; And there in spring the veeries sing The songs of long ago. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Trochee: 8s and 7s. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal!... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. • 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. 609 CM WATTS. it! on vii not liir TDnnrt rti. WHY do we mourn departing friends,... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - New England - 1883 - 618 pages
...sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me, On ocean or ou shore. * 1 know not whore His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." God bless, prosper, and perpetuate our Society, through all coming time. EEPOET... | |
 | 1878 - 626 pages
...beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." This for the individual ; — and for the race we may remember the glorious vision... | |
 | Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867 - 322 pages
...great ocean, and find new worlds beyond ? Perhaps it was still reserved for Armstrong to say — " I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." Only there are still shipwrecks on all waters. He had still two or three hours... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1867 - 184 pages
...beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my... | |
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