 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
 | William Almack - 1871 - 76 pagina’s
...Hinc, illinc aedes summi ad fastigia tecti, Et via sub pedibus nigro velantur amictu. XXIV. MY dearest 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 292 pagina’s
...them the words of one who has himself written well and wisely for their class : " Be good dear child, and let who will be clever Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And BO make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." JGW AMESBURY, ith Month, 1871. CONTENTS.... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pagina’s
...try,by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him." FESTUS. — Bailey. " My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark co ild pipe 'o ekics so dull and gray : ILLUSTRATIONS. — CADENCE. 227 Yet, ere we part, one lesson... | |
 | Sophie May - 1871 - 370 pagina’s
...person. CHAPTER V. A GREAT SURPRISE. " Be good, fair maid, and let who will be clerer; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death, and the vast forever One grand, sweet song." mother wrote that on this card more than a year ago, and when... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1871 - 1018 pagina’s
...person. CHAPTER V. A GREAT SURPRISE. " Be good, fair maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death, and the vast forever One grand, sweet song." '"INHERE, mother wrote that on this card •^ more than a... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pagina’s
...knows everything ; He said she would before they planted her. Jean Ingdow. 358. CHILD, Lesson for a, My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No...clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; [ever And so make life, death, and that vast f orOne grand, sweet song 1 CHILD. CHILDHOOD. 359. CHILD,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pagina’s
...H 0I E O Q z E £ s EH >J Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you a For every day. BH H E * H Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; H -f X H H O And so make life, death, and that vast For-ever One grand, sweet song. a < IEEI E -S... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1872 - 322 pagina’s
...Beacon ; Oh the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. Mv 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... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pagina’s
...swallows in the sky ; Unknown lands there are on high, Far above the spire ! LL.B. A FAREWELL. !> Y 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... | |
 | 1872 - 800 pagina’s
...grand possibilities, but I fear I do not always obey that noble sentiment of Kingsley's, — •• Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death, and that vMt forever One grand, sweet song." I am acquainted with a young lady who is considered very goad,... | |
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