 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1909 - 566 pages
...other reason, the treasures of our green friends would be worth more than all the riches of India. "Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent....Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olive trees, they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him, The thorn tree had... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - 1884 - 314 pages
...air, What time with the passing of the night She also passed, somehow, somewhere. BALTIMORE. 1876. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the woods my...Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him : The thorn- tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - American poetry - 1884 - 302 pages
...also passed, somehow, somewhere. BALTIMORE, 1876. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the_woods_mv Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. IBut the olives 4wy were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him : The thorn-tree... | |
 | Methodism - 1890 - 644 pages
...and could not see far ahead, as the sky was both overcast and misty. GETHSEMANE. BY SIDNEY LANIER. INTO the woods my Master went—- Clean forspent —...and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him : Their little grey leaves were kind to Him : The thorn tree had a mind to Him When into the woods... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts - American poetry - 1891 - 796 pages
...lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the woods my...the olives they were not blind to Him, The little grey leaves were kind to Him : The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1895 - 820 pages
...this stanza of the " Ballad of Trees and the Master" stands, in its Saxon directness, for much more : "Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent....thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. " Stevenson too, and Kipling, whether as poets or prosers, are of this goodly company ; the very title... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill - American literature - 1896 - 174 pages
...nature are intensified to a mystic exaltation of the power of poetic sympathy in " The Ballad of the Trees and the Master:" Into the woods my Master went,...him, The little gray leaves were kind to him : The thorn tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came. Out of the woods my master went, And he... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...eyes The old home scenes can see, That heaven's joy is heightened by The planting of the tree. THE TREES AND THE MASTER. * Into the woods my Master went,...Him; The little gray leaves were kind to Him ; The thorn tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went — And... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...wears, with all-unconscious grace, The strange and sudden Dignity of Death. RICHARD BURTON. A BALLADE OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the woods my Master...the olives they were not blind to Him, The little grey leaves were kind to Him : The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of... | |
 | 1898 - 588 pages
...significance to the world), as to mere flowers and forests, "Into the woods my Master came Forspent with lore and shame ; But the olives they were not blind to...thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came." And it is a fine and noble thing to see the churches of different names not now contentious about empty... | |
| |
The thorn tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and shame would woo Him last... 
