’Tis well the Future is not ours, but His, With whom Time is not. Therefore have we trust, That what shall be may overleap what is, Though all that’s most in man be less than dust.
John Sterling
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Future, Thoughts in Verse—Crystals from Caverns, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, October 1837, p. 566; Full four-line public-domain poem transcribed from original magazine scan. DVPP credits John Sterling via Wellesley Index; enclosing prose by John Wilson is not poem authorship. Religious trust
- The Future, Thoughts in Verse—Crystals from Caverns, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, October 1837, p. 566
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