| 1828 - 608 pages
...child, be thy morning lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. "What is that, mother?—The dove, my son! And that low, sweet voice, like a widow's...Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crvstal uru, For her distant dear one's quick return: Ever, my son, be thon like the... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 860 pages
...lays Tuned, like the lark'«, to thy Maker 1 « pralle. What is that, mother I The lark, my child ! And that low sweet voice, like a widow's moan, Is flowing out from her gentle breait, Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poureu from some crystal urn, For her... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...ear. — Ever, my child, be thy morning lays Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, Mother ? The dove, my son ! And that low, sweet...Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn ; For her distant dear one's quick return. — Ever, my son, be thou like... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...Maker's praise What i« that, mother ? ^ The dove, ^beoiJ? And that low sweet voice, like t^^idow's moan, Is flowing out from her gentle breast, Constant and pure, by that lonely nest,< As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return — *?. Ever, my son, be thou... | |
| Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 1831 - 388 pages
...character of her assigned locality, as the soft cooing of the turtle-dove to green solitary haunts. " That low sweet voice, like a widow's moan, Is flowing...out from her gentle breast, Constant and pure, by her lonely nest, As the wave is poured out from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick... | |
| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...praise. 2. Child. What is that, Mother? Mother. The dove, my son! And that low sweet voice, like the widow's moan, Is flowing out from her gentle breast,...Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return — Ever, my son, be thou like... | |
| American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...ear. Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays Tuned, like the lark's to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother ? — The dove, my son. — And that...Constant and pure by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return. Ever, my son, be thou like the... | |
| American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother ? — The dove, my son. — And that low, sweet voiee, like a widow's moan, Is flowing out from her gentle...Constant and pure by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some erystal urn, For her distant dear one's quiek return. Ever, my son, be thou like the... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...ear. Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays, Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother? The dove, my son. — And that low sweet...Constant and pure by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return. Ever, my son, be thou like the... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...ear. Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays, Tuned, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother ? The dove, my son. — And that low...Constant and pure by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return. Ever, my son, be thou like the... | |
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