 | 1887 - 376 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...like thee — but now " — He hung his head — each noUer aim From boyhood hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept— he wept ! Bless'd tears... | |
 | 1889 - 436 sider
...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 had slept...boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept—he wept! 12. And now—behold him kneeling there By the child's side, in humble prayer, While... | |
 | 1889
...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... | |
 | Morton Bryan Wharton - 1890 - 340 sider
...When young and happy, pure as thou I looked and prayed like thee; but now Each hope and feeling that had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came ' Fresh o'er him, and he wept, he wept." Some years ago, I attended a service in the chapel of the Kentucky penitentiary at Frankfort. As the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1890 - 379 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 ! " When, young, and haply pure as thou, ' FEO.M SYRIA'S THOUSAND MINARETS." Paradise and the Peri. 197 " I looked and prayed like thee —... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 382 sider
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace. "There ivas a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child...that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wepti Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1892 - 552 sider
...branch of grace. "There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child i When, 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... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1893 - 448 sider
...found one sunny resting place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace? " There was & 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... | |
 | David Hoekzema - 1893 - 334 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!...each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept HOEKZEMA, Poetry. 4th Ed. 10 From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept —... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893
...branch of grace 1 "There was a time," he said in mild Heart-humbled tones — "Hum blessed child I When young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd...nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blcss'd tears of soul-felt... | |
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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... 
