 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wait thee here. Oh, come to-day I CHARLES A FAREWELL. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you, Nn lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere...lesson I can leave you For every day : — Be good, my dear, and let who will, be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life,... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...awaken their young hearts the greatness and beauty of Frank's one Missionary son, " BELIEVE IN JESUS." 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... | |
 | 1858 - 422 pages
...l.1.. My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; NC) 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 will be clever ; I 1n noble things, not dream then, all day lung ; And so mnke lil'e, death, and that vast for-ever... | |
 | 644 pages
...A single lady, though advanced in life, Is much more happy than an Ul-match'd wife. PARTING WOliDS. 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1860 - 492 pages
...is, but she is also tender and good ; and who will not echo Kingsley's counsel to his daughter, — " 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 forever One grand sweet... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pages
...wbo serve the right, The holy, true, and free. A FAREWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to gire you ;' No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray...one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, eweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make... | |
 | 1858 - 402 pages
...pardoned for quoting one entire poem, on the score of its excellence, as well as brevity:— A FABEWELL. 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... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. i. ~]l TY 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. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...under it.—Atlantic Monthly. PARTING ADMONITION—BY CHAS. KINOSLKY. My fairest cbild, I have no aong to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray ; Tet, ere we part one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
..."|t /TY 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. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long... | |
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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 will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And... 
