 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 :...  First Lessons in English - Page 25by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...wilt thou be hereafter? ALENANDER SMITH. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will' be clever ; Do nobte things, not dream them, all day long, And so make...death, and that vast forever, One grand sweet song. Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span, Where weeping virtue parts w,th man; Where love without... | |
 | Christian verses - 1862 - 110 pages
...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 will be clever, Do...death, and that vast for-ever — One grand sweet song. Rev. Charles Kingsley. OPEX sunny eye of day Little daisy flower, Let the raindrop roll away, Left... | |
 | Eildon Manor - 1862 - 362 pages
...AUTHOR OF "THE MAZE OF LIFE," ' JPtO. • Be good, sweet maid and let who will be clever ; I)o noblo things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever, One grand, swoet song."— C. KINOSLEY. LONDON : ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, PARUINGDON STKEET, AND 56, WALKER... | |
 | Emma Poel - Christian women - 1863 - 568 pages
...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 will be clever ;...Death, and that vast For-ever One grand sweet song. KINOSLEY. *a CHAPTER I. K94-1809. BIRTH CHILDH 0 0 P. 4 LTHOUGH many isolated details concerning the... | |
 | 302 pages
...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...life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet soug. ABON CASSIM'S OLD SLIPPERS. ABOIC CASSIM was an old merchant of Bagdad, renowned for bis avarice.... | |
 | 1863 - 594 pages
...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 will be clever; Do...long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever The grand, sweet song. — Btfv. C. 136 AN HOUE BY HAIL. in P<rar bg fail. THE long, rapidly flowing... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...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 ;...death, and that vast For-ever One grand, sweet song. CHARLES KINGSLEV. FAREWELL. JHEN eyes are beaming What never tongue might tell ; When tears are streaming... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - 372 pages
...praise. Our lives can be sublime without all that. As another poet has said, addressing a little girl, " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast for-ever One grand sweet song. " We may then ask, What was the secret of the greatness of John the Baptist ? And is it a secret which... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...CHRISTIAN •WORDS AND DEEDS. " Be good, sweet friend, and let who will be clever; 7>> noble deeds, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast Forever, One grand, sweet song." EEV. CHARLES KINGSLEY. " The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips."... | |
 | 1866 - 882 pages
...fellow-creatures; and seeking the good of others you shall win more joy than earthly honors can give. " ' Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do...death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " A HOTHEB'8 LOVE ВТ KISS HABT K. IPXNCIB. " Sweet is the image of a brooding doTe! Holy as heaven... | |
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