 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 psl.
...consider2 how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...; — "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly3 ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies ; — " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 psl.
...I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask : But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
 | 822 psl.
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide ; And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day labour, light denied? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : God doth... | |
 | 1846 - 436 psl.
...I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless (though...account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1846 - 332 psl.
...consider how long my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide ; And that one talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide ; ' Doth God exact day -labor, light denied ' t I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 psl.
...I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...light denied, I fondly ask : but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts ; who best Bear his... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 psl.
...I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 psl.
...I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...chide : " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied 1" I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 psl.
...consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 psl.
...consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...denied?" I fondly ask — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies — " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning,... 
