 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1897 - 360 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but, Lord, Be merciful...thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful...thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; " 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right,...we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1899 - 336 Seiten
...a coward's castle out of our stupidity. We cannot at the same time be both loving and thoughtless. "'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right,...thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1899 - 468 Seiten
...sin ; but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " 'Tis by our guilt the onward sweep Of truth and light, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long...thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. -'The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung ! The word we had not sense... | |
 | 1900 - 374 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but, Lord, Be merciful...hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all: But for our blunders... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1900 - 424 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! ' No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful...still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end ; ' The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 572 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful...still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end ; The hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 Seiten
...merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful...follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven awav. " These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end ; The hard, well-meaning... | |
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No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool... 
