 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
 | 1864 - 670 pages
...slanderers, for a gentle judgment on those who hare " stepped aside " from the rigid line of right. " 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,... | |
 | 1865 - 520 pages
...nor judge ourselves— others may judge, but cannot know us — God alone judges and knows too."|| 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,... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...The moving \vhy they do it, And still as lamely can ye mart, How far perhaps they rue it. 1865. 2 F 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 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 : eo Then at the balance let's be... | |
 | 1881 - 996 pages
...history, than the lines written by one who could have understood Poe perhaps as well as most men : — " 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...dark, the moving why they do it ; But just as tamely can we mark how far, perhaps, they rue it. Wha 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 782 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... | |
 | Fennings Taylor - Biography - 1867 - 484 pages
...we can now see only in part, and what peradventure in this life we can never understand perfectly. 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,... | |
 | Mormons - 1900 - 498 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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