 | 1869
...possible with God. While proudly disregarding the light of revelation, philosophy can but stumble, even " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." Bat the man who feels after the great Revealer " if haply he may find him," is not left to walk in... | |
 | 1875 - 544 psl.
...truths being brought to light. In any case, however, the knowledge only carries us back a step or two " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." If the chemist, the statist, the astronomer, lose themselves — as they delight to do — in the inquiry... | |
 | 1897 - 986 psl.
...laureate who after stating In the strongest form the excuses for doubt, proceeded to say of himself: — 1 falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith and grope And gather... | |
 | 1864 - 704 psl.
...distance at which an unseen God keep« ? and— " Faltering where he firmly trod, And fulling 'neath his weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, . That slope through darkness up to God," is it any wonder if he longs for some personal manifestation of God, euch ai takes place in Christ... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 psl.
...Thy sister Judgement now doth stronger seem Upon the stage, where erst thou played'st thy part : ' I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares, Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope thro' darkness up to God ; " A leader false and castaway thou art," She sternly speaketh ; but thy... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust aiid chaff, and call To what I feel is... | |
 | 1921 - 1154 psl.
...continues to do so in abrupt and futile movements. Compare Tennyson in ' In Memoriam," canto Iv. : — I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff ; . and Hecuba in ' The Trojan Women,' 1305, " beating the earth with both her hands.'"' A footnote in Darwin... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 psl.
...Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear ; I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | 1851 - 598 psl.
...of peace. " And falling, with my weight of care, Upon the great world's altar-stair, "Which slopes through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope ; " and alas ! but how "faintly trust the larger hope ! " This battle of life, — these victories of sin,... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... 
