 | 1850 - 560 pages
...bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Beaper said, and smiled; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. « 3 " They... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. * * * * " He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...the Lord of Paradise ] He bound them in his sheaves. * * * * "Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day, 'T was an angel visited the green... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. * * * * " He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...the Lord of Paradise! He bound them in his sheaves. * * * * "Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, This sounds more like Watts's hymns than a philosophical... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these dowrets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...Though the breath of those flowers is sweet to me, " I will give them all back again." He gaz'd on the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flow'rets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, " Where once He... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...bearded grain ? " Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, " I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flowrets gay," The Heaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they,... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed...of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flow'rets gay ;" The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they,... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 pages
...bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again. My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper...of the earth are they, Where He was once a child." Oh! what have we looked on since last we met ? We have seen disease, desolation, and death—anxious... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1851 - 526 pages
...the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers in sweet to me, I will give all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves [ It was for flic Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves* " My Lord has need of the flowrets gay," The Reaper... | |
 | 1851 - 268 pages
...lines that say — " My Lord hath need of these flowrets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled. " Sweet tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child."* But even if not taken when children, men must soon die ; the winter of old age must come at last to... | |
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He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where... 
