 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 :...  Book News - Page 1801893Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...and delight, but also sweetly commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not...them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and the vast ' for ever ' One grand sweet song." This, then, is the message of our text. Value the Word... | |
 | 1858
...meaning on the poet's words — " Be good," my friends, " and let who will be clever ; J)o Christ-like things, not dream them all day long ; And so make...death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song." May God in heaven himself bid you a Happy New Year ! Watford. THE WRECK. EY THE EEV. CORNELIUS ELVEN.... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...FAREWELL. MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every...death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS' CAKDS. PEKHATS most of the readers of the JUVENILE HiRAI.D have heard of... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...as Mr. Lloyd began talking to Lady Norris she remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that rast for ever One grand, sweet song."— C. KINOSLEY. " MY dear, I will not encourage it, it is quite... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...an open passage or by a passage under an arch? GIT Do noble things, not dream them, all day lonit ; And so make Life, Death, and that vast For Ever One grand sweet song. KINGSLEY'S VERSES: 'A FAREWELL.' — In the lifetime editions of Charles Kingsley the verse in ' A... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...the hive of the race. Go and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream...day long ; And so, make life, death, and that vast forever, A grand, sweet song." When Indolence usurps the throne of the intellect, then courage and... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...pupil —why? that be may escape punishment. Not so, says the poet Kingsley. " 'Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " The speaker declared that only by contributing all its resources... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1860 - 492 pages
...Kingsley's counsel to his daughter, — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." Though Amelia is weak, she has none of the faults usually so trying... | |
 | 1858 - 402 pages
...FABEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every...death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. There were reasons why we should look with more than common interest at the little volume of " London... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. ELEGIACS. TTTEARILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge... | |
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