 | Mother - 1872
...swallows in the sky ; Unknown lands there are on high, Far above the spire ! LL.B. A FAREWELL. !> Y 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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 160 pages
...Trust in God, and do the right.' A FAREWELL.—Kingsley. No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; Be good, sweet maid, and let who would be clever, Do... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872
...Gray smiled, and stroked the girl's sun-lit hair, as she quoted Kingsley in her soft sweet voice — " 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 for ever, One grand sweet... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 224 pages
...to men, While beasts are dumb : oh, children, then, For this thank God ! LXXXVIL— A FAREWELL. I. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, dear child, and let who will, be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;... | |
 | Little folk - 1873
...so readily, You lived with .us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die. . Tennyson. ^December 3igt. 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 child, and let who... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 512 pages
..."Andromeda, and Other Poems," edit. 1862.] .A FAREWELL. Q D (0 I O z z £ D 0 ISaSjl ^° 'afk cou^ P'Pe '° skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you s CO z h For every day. X U Ed < Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; fl. J £ s~ gj Da... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873
...firmness, resolution ward'-er, a prison officer di'-a-ry, a written account of one's doings day by day ' Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long, And make Life, Death, and that great "For Ever" One grand, sweet... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874
..."Natural History of Commerce.'''' 43.— A FAKEWELL. fair-eat les-son no-ble for-ev-er dream clev-er 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874
...Since hope fulfilled, you must allow, Turns NOW to THEN, and THEN to NOW." Jane Taylor. A FAEEWELL. 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 give you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Townsend - 1876 - 292 pages
...kisses, Hoping what I most desire ; Not a mother's fondest wishes Can to greater joy aspire. A LESSON. 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... | |
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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... 
