 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 :...  Choice Literature - Page 3471912Full view - About this book
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...X. CHRISTIAN WORDS AND DEEDS. 0 Be good, sweet friend, and let who will be clever j Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast Forever, One grand, sweet song." REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY. " The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips."... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...your words and actions mark you gentle. Lord Collingwood. What the Poet said to the Young Maiden. T)E good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble...death, and that vast Forever One grand, sweet song. What the Poet might say to the Young Maiden's Mother. fPIS all in vain to hurry so, They're roses and... | |
 | 1880 - 630 pages
...all through the book, and is summed up in the lines : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will bo clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day...and that vast Forever, One grand, sweet song." The interest of " Hypatia '' is very largely of a historical kind ; and the period of which it treats is... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...the treasures vast That lie 'neath the waves of the mystic past. Mrs. Chapman. XIX. A FAREWELL. s. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will, be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...treasures vast That lie 'neath the waves of the mystic past. Mrs. CKapman. M SIX. A FAREWELL. t IT fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will,... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 pages
...to the other of the classes into which the devout thinkers of the day have divided. A 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 maid, and let who... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...was s-iid that -I combat she held the duke's- horses in the \ <A « Alt. \ OLD. 756 A FAKE WELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark...Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And no make life, death, and that vast forever, )ne grand, sweet song. MATTHEW ARNOLD; 1822 MATTHEW ARNOLD,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...try,by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him." FESTUS. — Bailey. Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every...death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song." — A FAREWELL. — Kingaley, " Learn, by a mortal yearning, to ascend, — Towards a higher object.... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...| nor breath | nor mo\tion; As i|dle as | a paint |ed ship Upon | a paint | ed o | cean. Coleridge. Be good, | sweet maid, | and let | who will | be clev|er...long : And so | make life, | death, and | that vast | for ev|er One grand, | sweet song. Kingsley: My life | is cold | and dark | and drear|y ; It rains... | |
 | Mrs. C. Y. Barlow - 1869 - 348 pages
...the pleasure that self-sacrifice alone can give. XVII. IHIl LITTLE SCHOOL. " Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long j So shalt thou make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song." > Tommy, you must... | |
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