 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and the vast ' for ever ' One grand sweet song." This, then, is the message of our text. Value the Word... | |
 | 1858
...meaning on the poet's words — " Be good," my friends, " and let who will be clever ; J)o Christ-like things, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song." May God in heaven himself bid you a Happy New Year ! Watford. THE... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...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 so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS' CAKDS. PEKHATS most of the readers of the... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that rast for ever One grand, sweet song."— C. KINOSLEY. " MY dear, I will not encourage it, it is quite... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 pages
...and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so, make life, death, and that vast forever, A grand, sweet song." When Indolence usurps the throne of the intellect, then courage and the strong... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...emergency. The life of Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden night ; Eut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning,... | |
 | 644 pages
...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 so make life, death, und that vast for ever, One grand sweet song. Forgiveness. — He who others, breaks the bridge must... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 pages
...DESIGNED AS INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY. BY JOHN G. EJDGAR, AOTHOR OF "THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN." The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden Jligni, Hut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LONGFELLOW. Ellustratfons.... | |
 | 1897 - 404 pages
...escape punishment. Not so, says the poet Kingsley. " 'Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " The speaker declared that only by contributing all its resources... | |
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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 so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. 
