 | Edmund Burke - 1818
...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... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 741 sider
...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...o'er him, and he wept — he wept! Blest tears of soul -felt penitence! Jn whose benign , redeeming ßow Is felt the ßrst, the only sense Of guiltless... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823
...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 Lead — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 386 sider
...was a time," he said, with mild Heart-humbling tones, " thou blessed child, When, young and happy, pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee ! but...his head — each nobler aim. And hope, and feeling, that had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept ! — he wept! Blest... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 420 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There teas a time," he said in mild Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When young and haply pure as thou, s' I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 sider
...young and haply pure a?th«u,e- * » • » " I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hunc; his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From hoyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him and he wept ! he wept ! Bless tears of soul-felt penitence... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827
...resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grare ! '- « There was a time,» he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones — « thou blessed child ! When,...as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — A He hung his head — each noblrr aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour,... | |
 | 1828
...Heart-humbled tones — ' 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^he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 ! 
