 | 1856 - 766 pages
...Our neighbour and our work farewell : The trivial ronnd, the common task, May furnish all we ought U> ask — Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." H is true, indeed, that if in no other way could we prepare for an eternal world than by retiring from... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...and by many a little act of selfsacrifice which, coming in " the daily round and common task" may " Furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bnng us daily nearer God." Thus may we walk in the blessed steps of Christ's most holy life, animated... | |
 | John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round,...ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more; content with these, Let present Rapture, Comfort, Ease, As Heaven shall bid them,... | |
 | John Keble - Church year - 1829 - 406 pages
...neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : n 2 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish...ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more; conteiit with these, Let present Rapture, Comfort, Ease, As Heaven shall bid them,... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...bid, for cloister'd ceU, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round,...ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." This view of Christian communion suggests the wisdom and the desirableness of those ordinances and... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...to wind ourselves too high For sinful man heneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To hring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease,... | |
 | John Keble - 1834 - 428 pages
...bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round,...ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.* * [ "O for a closer walk with God, A. calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 236 pages
...bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round,...ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Grant it eternal Trinity, The Father, Son, and Spirit blessed, Whose glory is, and still shall be,... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 814 pages
...bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour or our work farewell; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round,...ourselves: a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." Le Maitre retired into a private house, near the Abbey of Port Royal; and having once put his hand... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 240 pages
...bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round,...ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Grant it eternal Trinity, The Father, Son, and Spirit blessed, Whose glory is, and still shall be,... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 
