 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...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 will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ? And so make life,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 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... | |
 | Joseph Simms - 1873 - 830 pages
...Let us avoid being one-aided at all times; let us learn to be philosophers, and " Do good, let those who will be clever Do noble things, not dream them all day long, And make life, death, and the vast for ever One grand sweet song." "Greyfriar's Bobby." A remarkable dog,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 pages
...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 - 296 pages
...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...all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. Charles Kingsley. 44.— MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. tal-ent there-with... | |
 | Matilda Anne Mackarness - 1874 - 340 pages
...dinner kept," sent them all flying into their rooms like rabbits to their burrows. CHAPTER II. BLANCHE. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...all day long, And so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand sweet song. C. KlNGSLEY. HE next morning, bright and sunny, and with a fresh, light... | |
 | 1914 - 668 pages
...to bed by day? — Robert Louis Stevenson A FAREWELL My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray; Yet,...death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. — Charles Kingsley A BOY SCOUT IN' CAMP Roy was a Boy Scout. He u;c< the only child in the family.... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...such thought in his mind when he wrote — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them all day long — And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand sweet song." SEEPE-N. AN INTRODUCTION TO A POEM. BEING A LETTER TO A FRIEND. Dear... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1899 - 796 pages
...God ! 1854. A FAREWELL TO CEG MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe in skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you, For every day. I '11 tell you how to sing a clearer carol Than lark who hails the dawn or breezy down ; To earn yourself... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...had for the asking! James Russell Lowell 347. FAREWELL My fairest child, I have no song to give you, No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray , Yet,...death , and that vast forever , One grand, sweet song. Charles Kingsley 348. REST OF THE WEARY Rest of the weary, joy of the sad; Hope of the dreary , light... | |
| |
My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray : 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 :... 
