 | Emma Poel - Christian women - 1863 - 568 pages
...deposited. THE LIFE OF AMELIA WILHELMINA SEVERING. FIRST PART. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH. (1794—1817.) 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... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...cares and follies ! go this way And thou art sure to prosper all the day. H. Vaughan cm TO A CHILD 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...the treasures vast That lie 'neath the waves of the mystic past. Mrs. Chapman. XIX. A FAREWELL. s. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will, be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long... | |
 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...Kingsley, I shall turn to the other of the classes into which the devout thinkers of the day have divided. 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...treasures vast That lie 'neath the waves of the mystic past. Mrs. CKapman. M SIX. A FAREWELL. t IT fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will,... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. A FAREWELL.— (The Rev. Canon Kingsley.) My gentle child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could...lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life,... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pages
...warmest praise For this condescending grace, And our hearts with love inflame For Thy birth at Bethlehem. 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... | |
 | William Almack - Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - 1871 - 76 pages
...Hinc, illinc aedes summi ad fastigia tecti, Et via sub pedibus nigro velantur amictu. XXIV. MY dearest 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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1871 - 422 pages
...try,by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him." FESTUS. — Bailey. " My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark co ild pipe 'o ekics so dull and gray : ILLUSTRATIONS. — CADENCE. 227 Yet, ere we part, one lesson... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1872 - 322 pages
...Beacon ; Oh the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. Mv 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... | |
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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... 
