 | Thomas Bilby - Children's songs - 1836 - 154 pages
...ROSE. Tune, " Mozart." How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flow'r ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And...Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flow'rs of the field; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 226 pages
...of the church of God 1 How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die ma day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its... | |
 | John Scott (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1839 - 84 pages
...III, pages 38 and 39. 1, How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; but the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, and they wither and die in a day. 2, Yet the Rose 2, has one powerful virtue to boast, when its leaves are all dead and fine colours... | |
 | Simple lessons - 1841 - 102 pages
...leaves. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beau-ti-ful flow-er ! The glo-ry of A-pril and May ; But the leaves are be-gin-ning to fade in an hour,...they wi-ther and die in a day. Yet the rose has one pow'r-ful vir-tue to boast Above all the flow-ers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Spellers - 1842 - 182 pages
...privately ; but we cannot avoid the reproaches of our own mind. ;00 A Just Standard for Pronouncing THE ROSE. How fair is the rose, what a beautiful flower...the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all tiie flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colours los* Still how sweet... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - English language - 1842 - 184 pages
...LESSON ni, ,. . THE ROSE.' How fair is the rose,r what a beautiful flower! In summer so ifagrant arid gay ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and dic in a day. Yet the rose has one -powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the field ; When... | |
 | Sense organs - 1843 - 174 pages
...Nor is it only when arrayed in all its charms that it yields us pleasure. If we say with the poet — The leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day ; We must add with him — Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...seventy-fire. [The Ruse.] How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May 1 de of human tears, That shall no longer flow. * *...return to Him That gave its heavenly spark ; Yet thi boa«t, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colours lost,... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 620 pages
...changei and decays : " How fair is the rose ! What a beautiful flower I The glory of April and May I But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die iu a day." So also the fruit — we see its glowing colours ; we smell its mellow and delicious odour... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pages
...for a pattern. THE ROSE. OW fair is the ross ! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May; But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And...the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours all lost, Still how swoet a perfume... | |
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HOW fair is the rose ! What a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour. And they wither and die in a day. Yet... 
