 Thou ! if Thou wast He, who at mid-watch came, By the starlight, naming a dubious Name! And if, too heavy with sleep — too rash With fear — O Thou, if that martyr-gash Fell on Thee coming to take Thine own, And we gave the Cross, when we owed the...  Obiter Dicta - 80. oldalszerző: Augustine Birrell - 1890 - 266 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 416 oldal
...and say—and no better example of the unconventional breadth of his sympathies could be found : — Thou ! if Thou wast He, who at mid-watch came By the starlight, naming a dubious Name! I And if, too heavy with sleep, too rash • \ With fear, O Thou, if that martyr gash Fell on Thee... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 oldal
...word to keep : Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 'Mid a faithless world — at watch and ward, Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By his servant...we keep it yet. " 'Thou ! if thou wast he, who at mid- watch came, By the starlight, naming a dubious Name ! And if, too heavy with sleep — too rash... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - 1908 - 508 oldal
...to keep : Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 25 'Mid a faithless world, — at watch and ward, Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By His servant...Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet " ' Thou I if Thou wast He, who at mid watch came, 50 By the starlight, naming a dubious Name I With fear —... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 294 oldal
...word to keep, Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 'Mid a faithless world, — at watch and ward. Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By His servant...Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet. ' " Thou I if Thou wast He, who at mid-watch came, By the starlight, naming a dubious name ! And if, too heavy... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 296 oldal
...guard. By His servant Moses the watch was set : Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet. ' " Thou I if Thou wast He, who at mid-watch came. By the starlight, naming a dubious name ! And if, too heavy with sleep — too rash With fear — O Thou, if that martyr gash Fell on Thee coming to... | |
 | 1909 - 338 oldal
...word to keep, Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 'Mid a faithless world, — at watch and ward, Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By His servant...set : Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet. 90 XVI ' Thou ! if Thou wast He, who at mid-watch came, By the starlight, naming a dubious name ! And... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 246 oldal
...the same, Bondsmen and handmaids. Who shall blame When the slaves enslave, the oppressed ones o'ei The oppressor triumph for evermore ? ' God spoke,...And if we were too heavy with sleep, too rash With fear—O Thou, if that martyr-gash Fell on Thee, coming to take Thine own, And we gave the Cross, when... | |
 | John Henry Arthur Hart - 1910 - 188 oldal
...word to keep, Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 'Mid a faithless world, — at watch and ward Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By his servant...was set : Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet '. But happily we are not dependent upon a poet's imagination or Talmudic fragments for a notion of... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1911 - 384 oldal
...blame, When the slaves enslave, the oppressed ones o'er The oppressor triumph for evermore ? 16. " God spoke, and gave us the word to keep : Bade never...set : Though near upon cock-crow — we keep it yet. 16. " Thou ! if thou wast He, who at mid-watch caine, By the starlight naming a dubious Name ! And... | |
 | 1911 - 548 oldal
...word to keep : Bade never fold the hands nor sleep 'Mid a faithless world — at watch and ward, Till Christ at the end relieve our guard. By his servant...set ; Though near upon cock-crow we keep it yet.' ' The Jews,' as Mr. Montefiore says in his commentary, ' have ever to realize that they have received... | |
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