 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
 | Mrs. Eliza H. Anderson - 1863 - 272 pages
...lives here besides you and your mother ? ' ' No,' she said. I thought of the beautiful lines, — . 'A simple child, . . . That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? ' ' " But they are dead ; those two are dead ; Their spirits are in heaven :... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...ask from a GOD, yet deny to a brother ? ELIZA COOK. "WE ARE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, Of eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1864 - 104 pages
...which I know of no more exquisite enforcement of the truth which I have just urged as a motive : — 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... | |
 | Sarah Stuart Robbins - 1864 - 350 pages
...fulness of the joy of life. This, the children could well understand. Life to a child was everything. "A simple child, That lightly draws its breath ; And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? " Death to it is a strange, dark, cold mystery. Life eternal, joyous life, is but the blossoming... | |
 | 1864 - 386 pages
...trust in God, and He was the light of her life. LESSON 37. WE ARE SEVEN; OH, 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... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...each his right, Lest God with such like misery Your wicked minds requite. OLD BALI.AD. WE ARE SEVEN. SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. 315. 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1864 - 276 pages
...I knew That they had opened theirs." BISHOP DOANE. 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... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 pages
...calling unexpectedly is a better. Now an idea for a leading * *' A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?" WOBDSWORTH. article is worth an editor's ransom. Now it is not worth while to quarrel, because it must... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1865 - 182 pages
...in thy Saviour's arms, For ever undefiled, Amid the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. are - 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... | |
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