What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood, — That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks... Messiah Pulpit - Page 101904Full view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our coutrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And... | |
| 1876 - 396 pages
...us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...wood. — That to the world are children ; Through thern it feels their glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to... | |
| S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, 0 ye children 1 And whimper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness... | |
| Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O yc children ! And whisper in my car WhaUhe birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. 106 Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the hirds and the winds are singing In your... | |
| Helen Lester (fict.name.) - 1859 - 288 pages
...Soiio, \\. HELEN LESTER, CHAPTER I. " What the leaves are to the fruit, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...the glow Of a brighter and .'sunnier climate Than reaches'the trunks below." LONGFELLOW. In a long, low, old-fashioned house, called the Grange, about... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...tender juices Have been hardened into wood — 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. " Come to me, 0 ye children I And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
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