 tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.  Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 161by Robert Burns - 1794Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it: And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone, Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as namely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. vnr. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias; Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 226 pages
...greatly dork, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone. Each spring, its various bias ; Then at the balance let's be mute, We... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving rvhy they do It: And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it....heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord— its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as namely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring — its various bias ; Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VI. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...step aside is human ; One point must still he greatly dark, The moving « hy they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it....heart, 'tis He alone) Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring— its various bias : Then at the halance let's he mute,... | |
 | A. C. L. D'Arblay (M.A., F.C.P.S.) - 1836 - 566 pages
...multitude insulted Him in a certain village, and the disciples would have called down Jire from heaven 1 Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias. Then at the balance let's he mute, We never... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark. The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark. How far perhaps they rue it. VIII. Who made the heart, 'tía IU alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it: And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone, Each spring—its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
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