| Charles Kingsley - Bible - 1885 - 352 pages
...Beacon, Airly Beacon ; Oh the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. MY fairest child, I have no song to give...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 ; Do noble things, not dream them,... | |
| Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...curled ; Yet for old sakes' sake she is still, dears, The prettiest doll in the world. — KINGSLET A FAREWELL. 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... | |
| Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...unheeding, And cherish, for my warrior's sake, The flower of love lies bleeding." THOMAS CAMPBELL. A FAREWELL. 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... | |
| Annie H. Ryder - Calendars - 1886 - 200 pages
...is an investment for the future. That end is worthy work and noble living. MARY A. LIVERMORE. 31 . 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 with you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let... | |
| C. E. Alexander - Religious poetry, English - 1886 - 346 pages
...cares and follies ! go this way And thou art sure to prosper all the day. //. Vauifhan cm TO A CHILD 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... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - English language - 1887 - 422 pages
...fault with Nature for putting thorns on roses. I always thank her for having put roses on thorns." 13. 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... | |
| Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 pages
...; O the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. TO CEG MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe in skies so dull and gray ; Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I '11 leave you, For every day. I '11... | |
| Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 pages
...JT~Y fairest child, I have no song to give you; JLY-JL 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 ; And... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...thorns." 13. 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: And... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1888 - 584 pages
...an upper room, and mourned the death of their hopes, saying to one another, "We trusted TO A CHILD. "My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No...dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can give you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream... | |
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