 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878
...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 pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope aud feeling,... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - 1879 - 552 sider
...was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! When, young and Imply 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 sense... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 544 sider
...wretched man then said, in mild heart-humbled tones : " Tbou blessed child ! there was a time, when, pure as thou, I look'd, and pray'd like thee — but...he hung his head : — each nobler aim, and hope, anii feeling, which had slept from boyhood's hour, that instant came fresh oVr him — and be wept!... | |
 | James Burke - 1879
...and pray'd like thee — hut now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feelings, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that 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... | |
 | New reader - 1879
...time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child 1 When young, and haply pure as thou, He hung his head ; each nobler aim And hope and feeling which had slept From boyhood.s hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! And now, behold him kneeling... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 255 sider
...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 sense... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880
...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,... | |
 | John Thomas Jeffcock - 1881 - 203 sider
...— what an effect his simple act produced upon that seared soul : — "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. But though it be true that every man, — I care not in what station of life, — can influence those... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 670 sider
...grace ! " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! Wlen young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd...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... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 450 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...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! And now ; behold him kneeling there, By the child's side in humble prayer, While the same sunbeam... | |
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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... 
