 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 sider
...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,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 438 sider
...and peace gone by 1 " There was a time," he said in Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child 1 When young, and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd...wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence 1 In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 sider
...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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 sider
...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...nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept— he wept ! Bless'd tears of soul-felt... | |
 | William Adams - 1873 - 392 sider
...Heart-humbled tears — ' thou blessed child, When, young and happy, 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 From boyhood-hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — h» wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 sider
...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 theo, — but now * He hung his head,• — each nobler aim And hope and feeling... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1874 - 732 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... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1874 - 106 sider
...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 sider
...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... | |
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And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran 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 ! 
