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 45by Robert Burns - 1869Full view - About this book
| Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 384 pages
...are endowed like Burns and live no better, recollect the doctrine of one of his best stanzas: — " 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 never can adjust it ; What's done... | |
| J. W. Lake - 1824 - 28 pages
...risaic beings who condemn in the gross, I would say with the bard of nature and of Scotland: — " 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 never can adjust it : What's done we... | |
| Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 388 pages
...are endowed like Burns and live no better, recollect the doctrine of one of his best stanzas : — " 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 never can adjust it; What's done we... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as fairly 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 lone,— Each spring— its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it;... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - 294 pages
...left the party to pursue their design, while he gave the rein to his own meditations. CHAPTER XIV. " Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows eacb chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bins." Buna. WE must now leave the party... | |
| 918 pages
...say, in the language of unholy self-gratulation, " Stand by, for I am holier than thou !" " Who sees the heart 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring its various bias." " Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both... | |
| 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, We never can adjust it; What's done... | |
| 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 we... | |
| 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 never can adjust it ; What's done... | |
| 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....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... | |
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