 Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 31edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 pages
...never did contract. (Third and Fourth editions.) LXXX Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (2i) Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin! LXXXI Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - 1903 - 390 pages
...we live and die, Lift not thy hands to // for help — for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. ... Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin Beset...me, and impute my Fall to Sin ? Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake ; For all the sin wherewith the Face... | |
 | Alfred Edward Taylor - 1903 - 450 pages
...direction of the unification of knowledge, have still more commonly thought 1 So Omar Khayyam— " Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Emmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin." (FITZGERALD, ed. 4, stanza So.) And... | |
 | 1922 - 710 pages
...from which we sprang. He again excuses himself for his sinning by putting the blame on the Creator: "Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin !" "When Allah mixt my clay, he knew... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...Something to resent the yoke Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain Of everlasting penalties if broke ! xci. 0 Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to travel in, Thou wilt not with predestined evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to Sin ! xcn.... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 268 pages
...me quite, One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright. LVII Oh, Thou, who did'st with Pitfall and with Gin Beset...Predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin ? LVIII Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth did'st make, And who with Eden did'st devise the Snake; For... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 pages
...dross-allay'd — Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer — Oh the sorry trade! LXXX. Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin! LXXXI. Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth... | |
 | Grace Norton - 1904 - 240 pages
...inserted passage. three hundred years later an English poet — were thinking the same thoughts :1 "Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestined evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin !" Persia and England may have known... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...dross-allayed — Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer — Oil the sorry trade ! LXXX. Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin ! LXXXI. Oil Thou, who Man of baser Earth... | |
 | 1904 - 542 pages
...dross-allayed — Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer — Oh the sorry trade ! LXXX. Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, LXXXI. Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And e'en with Paradise devise the Snake : For all... | |
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