 My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long :...  The Children's journal - Pagina 62Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pagina’s
...try,by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him." FESTUS. — Bailey. Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every...life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song." — A FAREWELL. — Kingaley, " Learn, by a mortal yearning, to ascend, — Towards a higher... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pagina’s
...| nor breath | nor mo\tion; As i|dle as | a paint |ed ship Upon | a paint | ed o | cean. Coleridge. Be good, | sweet maid, | and let | who will | be clev|er...long : And so | make life, | death, and | that vast | for ev|er One grand, | sweet song. Kingsley: My life | is cold | and dark | and drear|y ; It rains... | |
 | Mrs. C. Y. Barlow - 1869 - 348 pagina’s
...the pleasure that self-sacrifice alone can give. XVII. IHIl LITTLE SCHOOL. " Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long j So shalt thou make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song." > Tommy, you must... | |
 | Joseph Avery Collier - 1869 - 196 pagina’s
...song of Moses and the Lamb." " Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, nor dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song." III. Jfbfoer f 0ms. HABE ! the lilies whisper, Tenderly and low,... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pagina’s
...Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. A FAREWELL.— (The Rev. Canon Kingsley.) My gentle child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could...lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life,... | |
 | William Anderson (D.D.) - 1870 - 392 pagina’s
..." Pray before, as well as after your visit " was her solemn entreaty to her own beloved minister. " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...life, death, and that vast For-ever, One grand, sweet song." SECTION TV.— FIDELIA FISKE. " In the structure and working of her whole nature, she seemed... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1871 - 324 pagina’s
...Our lives can be sublime without all that. As another poet has said, addressing a little girl, — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do...life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song." We may then ask, What was the secret of the greatness of John the Baptist ? And is it a secret... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1871 - 186 pagina’s
...beautiful words of the poet who, addressing his own little child, said — " Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not...life, death, and that vast for-ever, One grand, sweet song. " NIMMO'8 FIVE SHILLING ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS. Crown 8vo, beautifully printed on superfine paper,... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1871 - 282 pagina’s
...LEE AND SHEPABD, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TO AGNES CLAIKE WORRALL. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; So making life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song." WOODSIDE, 1870. Storus. 1.... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pagina’s
...this condescending grace, And our hearts with love inflame For Thy birth at Bethlehem. A FAREWELL. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey ; Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
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