 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
 | Alexander Macleod - Children's sermons - 1881 - 344 pages
...give me a song." And Mr. Kingsley, who had a great love for children, wrote this song for her : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. " It is a great pleasure to God when His children do noble things. But I wonder if the little girl... | |
 | Evan Daniel - English language - 1881 - 420 pages
...1. Our deeds shall travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. a. Eiwt. 2. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do...life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song.—Jttngsley. 3. Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the fteld ring with their... | |
 | Amanda Bartlett Harris - 1881 - 428 pages
...Duty scaled Are close upon the shin1ng table-lands To which our God himself 1s moon and sun. Tennyson. Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, And...death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song. Kingsley. MARCH 20TH. But h1s little heart's a fountain pure of kind and tender feeling, And his every... | |
 | rev. William Burrows - Bible - 1881 - 344 pages
...works and their labours of love. " Be good, my child, and let who will he clever— Do nohle deeds, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, deep song." — Charles Kingsley. SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON VERSES 13, 14. It is to be added, also, that... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1881 - 244 pages
...' Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day along ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song.' In the family circle Charles Kingsley appeared in a most amiable light. To see him with his wife and... | |
 | Girls - 1881 - 390 pages
...life, at home or abroad, in youth or age : — •Do noble things, not dream them, all daylong •, And so make life, death, and that vast Forever, One grand sweet song.' Do your duty, keep strictly in duty's path, listen ever to duty's voice ; in every conjuncture put... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 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. C. Kingsley. NOTES. PAGE 7. Neat : an ox or cow. Quintels : a game in which a post was run at with... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - American poetry - 1882 - 264 pages
...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 :...death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. CHARLES KINGSLEY. MUD PIES. Sweetened with sugar, and sprinkled with spice, Apple turn-overs are really... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 148 pages
...to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. [brave lad] Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. CHARLES KINGSLEY. THE END. LONDON; it. CLAY. KU.NS. AND TAYLUU. I'RIM . THL GLOBE READERS I LLU STRATF.D... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1882 - 356 pages
...could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave vou For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. ELEGIACS. WEARILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge to the cloudland ; Wearily onward... | |
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