 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 408 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace! > There ivas a time,* he said, in mud Heart-humbled tones — • thou blessed child ! When,...young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thcc— but now—* He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 419 sider
...•When, young and haply pure as ilion. I look'il und pray'. I like Ibci — bul now — • lie bung his head— each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept ITOIII boyhood's hour, llial instant came Fresh o'er him ami he wept— he wept! Blest Iran of soul-fell... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 480 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace! "ere was a time" said in ilil Lispi And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's...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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1832 - 694 sider
...ihoti, • I looli'd and pray'd like thee — lint new« — He hung his head — euch nobler »im Anil hope and feeling, which had slept . . From boyhood's...that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wrpt. Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign , redeeming flow Is felt the first, the:... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832
...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, He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that... | |
 | Walter Cooper Dendy - 1833 - 148 sider
...of a child at prayer)- from the lips of one stained with blood and crime : — ' There was a time, thou blessed child ! When young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee.' But these are the sensations of comparative indifference, when contrasted with the delicious feelings of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 419 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 419 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... | |
 | 1838 - 320 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,...now"— He hung his head, — each nobler aim, And nope, and feeling, which had slept, From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841
...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... | |
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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... 
