“Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Life and Death of Jason, Book ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”
Remember Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Context: p>With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
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Context: Our Lord shewed concerning Prayer. In which Shewing I see two conditions in our Lord’s signifying: one is rightfulness, another is sure trust.
But yet oftentimes our trust is not full: for we are not sure that God heareth us, as we think because of our unworthiness, and because we feel right nought, (for we are as barren and dry oftentimes after our prayers as we were afore); and this, in our feeling our folly, is cause of our weakness. For thus have I felt in myself.
And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words, and said: I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching?
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As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&ndash;64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319091004/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA394#v=onepage&q&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 394 <br class="br">1860s, Prayer (November 1863)