 Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see, I love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school,...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 429by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 505 pagesFull view - About this book
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...That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! The grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and their loss, Like her, — because they lor« him. JG WHITTIM. 320 Hon. JAMES PYLE WICKERSHAM, State... | |
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...sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! " He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him." Leaving the school-house, a short drive brought us to the old homestead which " Snow-Bound " and the... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 522 pages
...sweet child-face is showing : Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...triumph and his loss Like her — because they love him. JG WHITTIER. VISIBLE SPEECH. SPEECH is thought that can be heard ; writing is speech that can be seen.... | |
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...Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life 's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. John Greenleaf Whittier. A STORY OF OUR MAGAZINE. EVERYBODY called the place a Hole. There was no very... | |
 | 1870 - 914 pages
...showing: Dertr girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He live«; to learn, m life's hard school. How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his Ions Like her — because they love him. Frcm Jl'Aiitter'i Aîiruim and other Poems (Fields, 0 »good... | |
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...That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...loss, Like her, — because they love him. GARIBALDI. TN trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw The casting down of thrones. Thou, watching lone The... | |
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...That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. — John G }Vhiilier JEANIE MORRISON. I JVK wandered east, I 've wandered west, Through mony a weary... | |
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...That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. GAR I'DALD I. TN trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw The casting down of thrones. Thou, watching... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...sweet child-face is showing. De;ir girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing. / fie lives to learn in life's hard school, How few who...and his loss, Like her — because they love him. From " Our Young folkt." THE DYING ALCHEMIST.— NP THE night-wind with a desolate moan swept by, And... | |
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...That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her prave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few...they love him. GARIBALDI. In trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw The casting down of thrones. Thou, watching lone The hot Sardinian coast-line, hazyhilled,... | |
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