 A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 3361851Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...But be ndmonish'd by his grave, And think, and fear 1 WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death * I met a little cottage girl; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...the Lord; praise him and magnify TIJTTI for ever.1* WE ABE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl,... | |
 | 1853 - 248 pages
...prove The blessed influence of love. EB THE CHILD AT THE TOMB. "A little child That lightly draws Ha breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 1 I MKT one morning a little girl with a half-playful countenance, beaming blue eyes and sunny locks,... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 pages
...trust in God, and He was the light of her life. LESSON 37. WE ARE SEVEN; OK, A CHILD'S NOTION OF DEATH. -A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old, she said : Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | Poetry book - 1854 - 152 pages
...heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...all the rest ? Child, it is God who loves thee best. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath ; And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...song That whistles in the wind. ''-vi'^-'v» * WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, -<-<.. * <s <-/v>That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 7 I met a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | William Henry Furness - 1855 - 318 pages
...I then?" In the exuberauce and joy of living, it is not in him to conceive of his ceasing to be, " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" asks the religious poet of our age, who, in his immortal ode, entitled, " Intimations of Immortality... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed . WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
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