 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 pages
...irresistible : — 1'Iowcrs laugh before thee in their beds, .And fragrance in thy footway treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through thec are fresh and strong. The everlasting freshness of the universe, the perpetual triumph of life... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient, heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most...ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee, in their beds ; And fragrance, in thy footing, treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong: And the most...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. To hallowed duty, Here, with a loyal and heroic heart* Bind we our lives. MRS. OSOOOD.... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...thy face : Flowers laugh before Thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doat preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through Thee are fresL and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
 | 1862 - 522 pages
...smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. • " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Oh ! let my weakness have... | |
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 522 pages
...smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 524 pages
...smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 290 pages
...excellent artist, hath so contrived his work, that with the selfsame instrument, without a new * See Wordsworth's Ode to Duty : — " Thou dost preserve...the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens thro' thee are fresh and strong." Cf. Cowper's Task, bk. vi : — " Some say that in the origin of... | |
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Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;... 
