 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 - Page 123by Robert Burns - 1811Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : 60 ; What 's done we partly can compute, But know not what's resisted. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY ON TURNING... | |
 | Michigan Historical Commission - 1917 - 228 pages
...yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God." THE GOOD AND THE BAD Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly can compute, But know not what's resisted. So, half sadly, but truly, sang Scotland's illustrious bard.... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 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 cord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - American literature - 1919 - 636 pages
...throw the veil of his own sweet charity — "Though we may gang a kenning wrang To step aside is human. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, Humanity's poet died in want. At the age of 37 his career was run. It was found that, like poor old... | |
 | Medicine - 1903 - 576 pages
...State; we shall enshrine his virtues in our hearts; had he faults, we recall them not. for— "Who knows the heart? 'Tis he alone decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, its various tone; each string, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, we never can adjust it; What's done we... | |
 | James Stacy Stevens - Bible - 1921 - 268 pages
...immortality to ilie aspirinl;, As if a man were taken quirk lo heaven." Barns tAildresS to the I"nco t¡mil): Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each hird — its various tone, Kadi spring — ¡<s various bias: Then at the balance, let's he mute, We... | |
 | Alice Amelia Chown - 1921 - 340 pages
...brought me so many recitals of human need. I have seldom forgotten Burns' advice : "Then at the balances let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly can compute, But know not what's resisted." Here were girls, young, full of life, attractive, with... | |
 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - Poets, Scottish - 1923 - 258 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...the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it j What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. The biting scorn in that frankly... | |
 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - Poets, Scottish - 1923 - 254 pages
...can ve mark JL lie lliuvmg -wity nit y And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, , j We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. The biting... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 666 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...mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly can compute, But know not what's resisted. One Sunday the sermon perhaps lacked appeal, and he becomes... | |
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