 | Charles Kingsley - 1872 - 322 sider
...Beacon ; Oh the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. Mv fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 sider
...swallows in the sky ; Unknown lands there are on high, Far above the spire ! LL.B. A FAREWELL. !> Y fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
 | 1872 - 800 sider
...grand possibilities, but I fear I do not always obey that noble sentiment of Kingsley's, — •• Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death, and that vMt forever One grand, sweet song." I am acquainted with a young lady who is considered very goad,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 sider
...Trust in God, and do the right.' A FAREWELL.—Kingsley. No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; Be good, sweet maid, and let who would be clever, Do... | |
 | 1872 - 152 sider
...sweet, you welcome in The coming of the day ? "I thank him for my happy rest, 176 BE good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all clay long ; And thus make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. 177 "DEAUTEOUS... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 360 sider
...Gray smiled, and stroked the girl's sun-lit hair, as she quoted Kingsley in her soft sweet voice — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever — Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand sweet... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1872 - 296 sider
...them the words of one who has himself written well and wisely for their class : " Be good dear child, and let who will be clever Do noble things, not dream them, Jill day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." JGW AMESBURY,... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1873 - 238 sider
...to men, While beasts are dumb : oh, children, then, For this thank God ! LXXXVIL— A FAREWELL. I. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, dear child, and let who will, be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;... | |
 | Gleanings, A M V - 1873 - 116 sider
...Heaven have their entrances on earth. 315. Man in society is like a flower, blown in his native bed. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do...day long ; And so make life, death, and' that vast For Ever, One grand, sweet song. 317. He that hath light within his own clear breast, May sit in the... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 sider
...You lived with .us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die. . Tennyson. ^December 3igt. fAREWELL. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet child, and let who... | |
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Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. 
