 | Public school series - 1874
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, — " thou blessed child...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1874 - 698 sider
...flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! — He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! NOW Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. And the king said... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875
...tones, — "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thce, — but now — " He hung his head, — each nobler aim,...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept, — he wept! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace P " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, — " thou blessed child ! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee, — but now — " He hung his head, — each nobler aim, And hope, and... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1874
...grave!** "There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, — "thou blessed ehild I (105) When young, and haply™ pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee— but now—" LESSON 41— Continued. He hung his head — eaeh nobler aim,7o And hope, and feeling, whieh hod slept... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 549 sider
...Heart-humbled tones, ' thou blessed child ! When, young and haply pure as thou, „ I looked and prayed like thee ; but now ' — He hung his head : each nobler aim And hope and feehng, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1877
...was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — "thou blessed child ! When, young and happy, pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only... | |
 | John Swain (Writer of Verse.) - 1877
...was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — "them blessed child 1 When, young and happy, pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept 1 Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877
...found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace ? " There was a time," he said, in mild, heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child ! when young, and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now " he hung his head; each nobler aim and hope and feeling, which... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ? 1 10 " There was a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child, When, young and haply * pure as thou, 1 looked and prayed like thee ; but now" He hung his head— -each nobler aim 115 And hope and feeling,... | |
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O'er many a year of guilt and strife, Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ? "There was a time... 
