 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 sider
...safety — they exert a most humanizing influence in the world. S " 0 what would the world be to us If the children were no more ! We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices... | |
 | 1876 - 396 sider
...in mine is the wind of autumn , And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | 1893 - 642 sider
...Lisburn, Ireland. The verse — Ah ! what would the world be to ui, If the children were no more 1 We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before, is from HW Longfellow's • Children.' WALTER HAMILTON. TOWELL (8th S. ii. 485).— The use of to -at... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1909 - 784 sider
...They are angels of God in disguise." And the beloved Longfellow, "Oh! What would the world be to us, If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us, Worse than the dark before." The mother of our own George Washington has said: "Mothers, what a holy charge is theirs— with what a... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...gently to the erring — know They may have toiled in vain ; CHILDREN. Ah, what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 sider
...harmony. Well may |Tongfelloki's sweet refrain touch our hearts : " Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | 1859 - 440 sider
...But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what wonld the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | Bridget Storey (fict. name.) - 1859 - 306 sider
...that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children wer& no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. LONOFELLOW. next morning Bridget did not awake till the -L noise of some one pulling up her blind aroused... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 sider
...Autumn, And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more P We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | 1861 - 320 sider
...But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. CHILDREN. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender... | |
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Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. 
