With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. A Study of Ethical Principles - Page 242by James Seth - 1894 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Q 4 Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd... | |
| 1853 - 566 pages
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can he through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
| 1854 - 632 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask how she view'd thy self-control, Thy struggling task'd morality. Nature, whose free, light, cheerful air,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1854 - 304 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd thy self-controul, Thy struggling task'd morality. Nature, whose free, light, cheerful air,... | |
| lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1854 - 334 pages
...planned. I almost wish you were off, and that little Lilia was safe with me .at Abergeale," CHAPTER XIV. "With aching hands and bleeding feet, "We dig and...of light return, All we have built do we discern." AHNOHD. Two years more passed away. It was Christmas time—six years after the death of Sir Hugh Willoughby.... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd thy self-control, Thy struggling task'd morality. Nature, whose free, light, cheerful air,... | |
| Margaret Agnes Paull - English fiction - 1857 - 324 pages
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'.l. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...of light return, All we have built do we discern. MATTHEW ABNoLD. KATHLEEN'S childhood had been solitary, since the disparity of years between them had... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1857 - 344 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd thy... | |
| R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet . We dig and heap,...done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built'do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...mystery our soul abides; But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd thy self-control, Thy struggling, task'd morality— Nature, whose free, light, cheerful... | |
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