 | Christian Henry Bateman - 1857 - 534 pages
...say, " I 'm such a tiny flower I 'd better not grow up ; " How many a weary traveller would miss ita fragrant smell ! How many a little child would grieve to lose it from the dell 1 Suppose the glist'ning dewdrop upon the grass should say, " What can a little dewdrop do? I 'd better... | |
 | 1859 - 798 pages
...cup, And say, " I'm such a tiny flower, I'd better not grow up : " How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell ! How many a little child...the grass should say, " What can a little dewdrop do 1 I'd better roll away : " The blade on which it rested, Before the day was done, Without a drop to... | |
 | 1915 - 558 pages
...Suppose the little cowslip, the words being by Fanny van Alstine. The second verse of this runs : — Suppose the glistening dewdrop Upon the grass should say, " What can a little dewdrop do ? I 'd better roll away," &c. This is the substance of what MR. JF CROWLEY wants, though the form is... | |
 | Illustrated songs - 1858 - 170 pages
...cup, And say, " I'm such a tiny flower I'd better not grow up ;" — How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell, How many a little child would...grass should say, " What can a little dew-drop do ? I 'd better roll away." The blade on which it rested, Before the day was done, Without a drop to... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1858 - 776 pages
...up ; How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell, How many a little child would grievo To lose it from the dell. Suppose the glistening dewdrop...grass should say, " What can a little dewdrop do ? I'd belter roll away;" The blade on which it rested, Before the day was done, Without a drop to moisten... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 pages
...; " How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell, How many a little child would griovo To lose it from the dell! Suppose the glistening Dewdrop...the grass should say, "What can a little dewdrop do? I 'd better roll away ; " The blade on which it rested, Before the day was done, Without a drop to... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...cup, An'i gay, " I'm such a tiny flower, I'd better not grow up." How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell ; How many a little child would grieve To see it from the dell I Suppose the glistening dew-drop Upon the grass should say, " What c«na little... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1860 - 348 pages
...child would grieveTo lose it from the dell. How many a weary traveller Would miss its fragrant smell, Suppose the glistening dewdrop Upon the grass should say, " What can a little dewdrop do ? The blade on which it rested, I'd better roll away:" , Before the day was done, Without a drop to... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 270 pages
...Would miss its fragrant smell ; How many a little child would mourn Its absence from the dell ! 2. Suppose the glistening dewdrop Upon the grass should...Before the day was done, Without a drop to moisten it, r NUMBEK THREE. 3. Suppose the little breezes Upon a summer's day, Should think themselves too small... | |
 | William Batchelder Bradbury - 1866 - 268 pages
...— I ^ m 2 Suppose the glistening dew drop Upon the grass, uhould say "What can a little dew drr,p do/ I'd better roll away!" The blade on which it rested, Before the day vas done, Without a drop to moisten it, || : Would wither:'] in the «m. MISSIONARY HYMN. 3 Suppose... | |
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I'd better roll away." The blade on which it rested, Before the day was done, Without a drop to moisten it, Would wither in the sun. 
