 | Peter Harvey - Statesmen - 1877 - 518 pages
...part of your grains to the earth, and the rest remains to the providential arrangements of the season. "Be gracious, Heaven! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...throws the grain Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene, Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, decend ! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | William Dodge Herrick - Gardner (Mass.) - 1878 - 612 pages
...farmer may offer the prayer of the poet, with confident expectation of being heard and answered. " Be gracious Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes blow ; Ye softening dews, ye tender showers descend, And temper all, thou world reviving... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...throws the grain Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene. Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, dccend ! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...I have often,' says good Bishop Horne, ' thought of and repeated the following lines of Thomson : ' Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...throws the grain Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene. Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...the grain 45 Into the faithful bosom of the ground. The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene. Be gracious, Heaven, for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ; Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ; 50 And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | John Ebenezer West - Cantatas, Sacred - 1892 - 110 pages
...Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it. Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow I Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend 1 And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1893 - 1410 pages
...connection with the planting of the corn, we could supplement this beautiful passage from his Spring: " Be gracious, Heaven, for now laborious man . Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes blow ; Ye softening dews, ye tender showers descend; And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
 | Literature - 1898 - 680 pages
...of a bird in the early Spring. JAMES BOWEEK. DOINGS IN THE DALE. CHAPTBR V. THE RETURN OF ORCESUS. Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And temper all, thou world-reviving... | |
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Be gracious, Heaven! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And .temper all, thou world-reviving sun, Into the perfect year... 
