 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sider
...said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When, young and happy, pure as tbou, " I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now " He hung...nobler aim, And hope, and feeling, which had slept * "Sach Turks as at the common hour of prayer are on the road, or so employed as not to find convenience... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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, 1 look'd and pray'd like thee — but now " — He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace 1 ' 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,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 408 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 lik« thee; but now — ." He hung his head ; each nobler aim And hope and feeling... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 sider
...brought him back one branch of grace ? — " There was a time," he said, in mild, He art -hum bled 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...Eepcntanco. Death is deferred, and penitence has room To mitigate, if not reverse the doom. Dryden. He hnng his head— each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling,...and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt pemtence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense PEHTAKZTZB — set Hexameter.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 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,... | |
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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 ! 
