 Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!  Little Classics - Page 128edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Congregational churches - 1889 - 674 pages
...read, — "Grow old along with rne; The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first is made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, A whole...shows but half: trust God; see all, nor be afraid." Eleanor closed the book, and an earnest expression settled upon her fa.' She spoke rapidly, as though... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 562 pages
...pearl? Festus, I plunge. —Paracelsus. ACE. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are...shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" —Rabbi Ben Etra. LOVE. Oh, how but losing love does whose love succeed By the death-pang to the birth-throe,... | |
 | William James Dawson - English poetry - 1890 - 396 pages
...exclaim, with a sense of triumphant gladness : Grow old along with me ! The best is yd to be, The last of life for which the first was made ; Our times are...shows but half ; trust God ; see all, nor be afraid ! " He has infinite faith in God, that His love will, in ways unknown to us, work out ultimate blessedness... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...I will try to sleep. RABBI BEN EZRA. I. GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are...shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" n. Not that, amassing flowers, Youth sighed "Which rose make ours, "Which lily leave and then as best... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - Jews - 1890 - 552 pages
...expressions of faith in our language — s Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are...shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!'' So he leads us, and we feel a new strength inspire us even at the outset. For he has found the fixed... | |
 | Jews - 1890 - 376 pages
...old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last pf life lor which the first was made; Our tirnes are in His hand. Who saith, "A whole I planned. Youth...shows but half; trust God! see all. nor be afraid.' 1 The last verse, the 32d, runs thus. So take and use thy work. Amend what flaws may lurk. What stains... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 542 pages
...Festus, I plunge. — Paracela us. AGE. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole 1 planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" — Rabbi Ben Ezra. LOVE. Oh,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in His band Who saith ' ' A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God : see all nor be afraid ! " II. Not that, amassing flowers, Youth sighed " Which rose make ours, Which lily leave and then... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1890 - 584 pages
...part of life is made for the last ; the best lies beyond : ' Our times are in His hand Who said, " A whole I planned." Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid.' Age robs us of many treasures, but it ripens faith for sight ; it prepares our eyes for the breaking... | |
 | Judson Fisher - Consolation - 1891 - 196 pages
...crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. ROW old along with me ! he best is yet to be, The last of life for which the first was made; Our times are in...shows but half; trust God; see all; nor be afraid." . ROBERT BROWNING. VT7HE evening shadows of age are long and cold, aJ- but they all point towards a... | |
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