 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 so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.  Rutledge - Page 108by Miriam Coles Harris - 1862 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...but also sweetly commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and the vast ' for ever ' One grand sweet song." This, then, is the message... | |
 | England - 1876 - 818 pages
...the father of a man able and willing to take the poet's advice — " Be good, my friend, nnd let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; So making life, death, and that vast For Ever, One grand, sweet song. " Such is the man whom I would invite... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1859 - 1126 pages
...respond to the lesson of the verse, " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble deeds", not dream them all day long, So shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. One grand sweet song." The self-respect and independence thus produced are the surest... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...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 so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS'... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...Norris she remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that rast for ever One grand, sweet song."— C. KINOSLEY. " MY dear,... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...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; Andsomake life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. IpOM'S rOLD boy knows how to... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 486 pages
...of the race. Go and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so, make life, death, and that vast forever, A grand, sweet song." When Indolence usurps the... | |
 | 644 pages
...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 so make life, death, und that vast for ever, One grand sweet song. Forgiveness. — He who others,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...that be may escape punishment. Not so, says the poet Kingsley. " 'Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " The speaker declared that only... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Cholera - 1857 - 356 pages
...Do you recollect, Queen Whims, what I wrote once in your album ? ' 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.' " . " Yes, as I smoke my cigar,... | |
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