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 so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. The Autograph Birthday Book for Young Folksedited by - 1881 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream 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 life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song." May God in heaven himself bid you a Happy New Year ! Watford. THE... | |
| Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...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 so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS' CAKDS. PEKHATS most of the readers of the... | |
| 1880 - 494 pages
...remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream 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... | |
| J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all 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 the strong... | |
| 644 pages
...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 so make life, death, und that vast for ever, One grand sweet song. Forgiveness. — He who others, breaks the bridge must... | |
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...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 in persons of her character ; she... | |
| 1859 - 316 pages
...at the risk of trying you, I must quote it : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all day long ; And...death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." as some one, doubtless fresh from reading Kingsley, wrote the other day in this paper — " By doing,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And...death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. ELEGIACS. TTTEARILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge to the cloudland ; Wearily onward... | |
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