| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 pages
...Vaud, A child in its cradle lay. And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Sayinz : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee."...And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...pleasant mon'h of May, In the beautiful Pays de Vaud, A child in its cradle lay. And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here...wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; ind read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pages
...4. June 8. June p. Old in honours, young in age. Tales of a Wayside Inn— Saga of King Olaf—2. " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet...And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away, With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day,... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1878 - 296 pages
...of the wide universe of God. The poem tells us that as the boy lay in his cradle, ' Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thce." ' " Come wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread... | |
| David Worth Dennis - 1878 - 78 pages
...cradle lay. And Nature, the old nurse., took The child upon her knee, Saying: " Here is a story book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet uutrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With... | |
| 1878 - 604 pages
...credit him with a training like that of the Swiss boy of whom it was said that — Nature, the dear old nurse, 'Took the child upon her knee, Saying, Here is a story-book Thy Father hath written for thee. In the present case the book of nature was opened to a pupil who, whilst showing... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 pages
...cradle lay. And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story- tiook Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with...And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and awny With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day... | |
| Joseph Cochran - 1879 - 452 pages
...Nature the dear old nurse Took the child upon her knee, Saying here is a story book, The father wrote for thee. Come wander with me she said, Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread, In these manuscripts of God." Over these hills and mountains and valleys are the leaves of natures story... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...every youth and maiden who seeks to learn of Nature — the handmaid of the Great Author of all. " ' Come, wander with me,' she said, ' Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscript of God.' " And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him,... | |
| 1879 - 614 pages
...child upon her knee, Saying: ' Hero is a story-book Thy Father has written for the«, ** * Come Wu jtr with me,' she said, * Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God/ * And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day,... | |
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