And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God. From the Hebrides to the Himalayas - Page 252by Constance Frederica Gordon- Cumming - 1876 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1888
...her knee, Saying, " Here is a story-book Thy Father hath written for thee. " Come, wander with mo," she said, " Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Gift books - 1881 - 504 pages
...nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written fur thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | a leading physician - 1881
...Nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, " Here is the story book Thy Father has written for thee. " Come wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the Manuscripts of God." " And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old Nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett, Ida M. Eliot - American poetry - 1881 - 320 pages
...nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Birthday books - 1882 - 398 pages
...until my heart shall take Into itself the summer day, And all the beauty of the lake. CADENABEIA. " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF AGASSIZ. AUGUST 24. Continually and ever with more distinctness,... | |
 | American poetry - 1881 - 494 pages
...nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away, With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | William George Lock - Geology - 1881 - 106 pages
...THE ODASAHBAUN TO ASKJA .... 85 — 70 4. THE PROBABLE GENESIS OF ASKJA, AND OF ICELAND 71—106 ' " Come, wander with me," she said, '' Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | William George Lock - Geology - 1881 - 106 pages
...TO ASKJA .... 85 70 4. THE PROBABLE GENESIS OF ASKJA, AND OF ICELAND .,,......,. 71—106 ' " Corue, wander with me," she said, •' Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - Birthday books - 1881 - 307 pages
...nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy father has written for thee." And he wandered away and away With Nature the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day, The rhymes of the universe. HW Longfellow. May 29. As fair and frail, As May's first... | |
 | Robert Routledge - Science - 1881 - 673 pages
...greatly honoured by the citizens of his adopted country. lt was of him that Longfellow wrote : — And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail,... | |
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