 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
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pagina’s
...Trust in God, and do the right.' A FAREWELL.—Kingsley. No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; Be good, sweet maid, and let who would be clever, Do... | |
 | 1872 - 152 pagina’s
...sweet, you welcome in The coming of the day ? "I thank him for my happy rest, 176 BE good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all clay long ; And thus make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. 177 "DEAUTEOUS... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1872 - 296 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, Jill day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." JGW AMESBURY,... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 360 pagina’s
...Gray smiled, and stroked the girl's sun-lit hair, as she quoted Kingsley in her soft sweet voice — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever — Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand sweet... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1873 - 238 pagina’s
...to men, While beasts are dumb : oh, children, then, For this thank God ! LXXXVIL— A FAREWELL. I. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, dear child, and let who will, be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 294 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...life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." AMESBURY, 4tft Month, 1871. JGW CONTENTS. INFANCY. "«« The Baby George Macaonala, 3 Old Gaelic... | |
 | Gleanings, A M V - 1873 - 116 pagina’s
...Heaven have their entrances on earth. 315. Man in society is like a flower, blown in his native bed. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do...day long ; And so make life, death, and' that vast For Ever, One grand, sweet song. 317. He that hath light within his own clear breast, May sit in the... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pagina’s
...You lived with .us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die. . Tennyson. ^December 3igt. 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 child, and let who... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1873 - 448 pagina’s
...feeling that ne'er can depart. Schiiler (translated ày Edward, Earl of Derby). , GOODNESS AND NOBILITY. BE good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all daylong : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. Charles Kingsley.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pagina’s
..."Andromeda, and Other Poems," edit. 1862.] .A FAREWELL. Q D (0 I O z z £ D 0 ISaSjl ^° 'afk cou^ P'Pe '° skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you s CO z h For every day. X U Ed < Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; fl. J £ s~ gj Da... | |
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