 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 512 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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 702 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,... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 614 sider
...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...boyhood's hour, that 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,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 524 sider
...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, which had slept Prom bovhood's hour, that instant came •/ Fresh o'er him, and he wept—he wept Blest tears of soul-felt... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 544 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,... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 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... | |
 | 1905 - 642 sider
...mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When young, and haplv pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now "— He hung his head ; each nobler...boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept—he wept! While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy... | |
 | 1905 - 636 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace V" 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... | |
 | 1905 - 304 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace fr" 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... | |
 | 1817 - 698 sider
...Heart-humbled tones — " tliou blessed child ! When young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee — but now—" He hung his head— each...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept— he wept !" The Peri carries a tear of penitence to Paradise — the gates unfold — and the angel welcomes... | |
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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 ! 
