 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pagine
...joy, are instruments in the hand of the surgeon. In his little poem, "The Celestial Surgeon," he says: "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. Or, if too obdurate, I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, The piercing pain, the killing sin And... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 pagine
...did not have in mind a more serious aspect of this same mood when he wrote the fa miliar lines, — If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. Even Stevenson called his happiness a 'great task'; and it was no wonder For him, and for many, it... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pagine
...contains a special philosophy of life. It is entitled The Celestial Surgeon, and begins thus : — " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness." That is what the pursuit of happiness becomes to some of us, — a task, to be persevered in with resolute... | |
 | 1900 - 514 pagine
...See adv. by Messrs. IO Woodruff & Co., and send for literature and samples. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...skies Books and my food and summer rain Knocked on iny sullen heart in vain ; Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or,... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 344 pagine
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON. IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 204 pagine
...Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII . THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin,... | |
 | 1888 - 612 pagine
...reclaimed Is as a kingdom conquered, where to reign. Our last quotation must be " The Celestial Surgeon : " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And... | |
 | 1893 - 322 pagine
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin,... | |
 | 1922 - 496 pagine
...sale will please notify Mrs. St. John Alison Lawton, 41 South Battery, Charleston, SC, stating price. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food and summer rain... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pagine
...be; Home is the sailor, borne from sea, And the bunter borne from the bin. XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And... | |
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IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... 
