 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1860 - 198 pages
...take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So, let us sleep,... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1861 - 382 pages
...deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep EARLY RISING. 55 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, . at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So, let us... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 380 pages
...take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So, let us sleep,... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 336 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep 1 'T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us sleep,... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 302 pages
...sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us sleep,... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 320 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep 1 *T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin I So let us sleep,... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - 1867 - 276 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep, Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep. 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile, For the...from mortal care or guile, To live, as only in the angel's sight, In sleep's sweet realm so easily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin.... | |
 | 1867 - 530 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions of the gentle night ; In sleep's sweet realms so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1868 - 496 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep ! 'T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us sleep,... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...to weep, Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world a while For the soft visions of the gentle night ; And free,...care or guile, To live, as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So, let us sleep,... | |
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Tis doubtless well to be sometimes awake, Awake to duty, and awake to truth, But when, alas! a nice review we take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood, or asleep! 
