 | John Godfrey Saxe - History - 1860 - 198 pages
...take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1861 - 382 pages
...deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep EARLY RISING. 55 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, . at... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 380 pages
...take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 336 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep 1 'T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 302 pages
...sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - American wit and humor - 1866 - 320 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep 1 *T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep, Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep. 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile, For the...night ; . • And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live, as only in the angel's sight, In sleep's sweet realm so easily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions of the gentle night ; In sleep's sweet realms so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1868 - 496 pages
...The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood or asleep ! 'T is beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions...gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...to weep, Are those we passed in childhood, or — asleep ! 'Tis beautiful to leave the world a while For the soft visions of the gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live, as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the... | |
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Tis doubtless well to be sometimes awake, Awake to duty, and awake to truth, But when, alas! a nice review we take Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth, The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep Are those we passed in childhood, or asleep! 
