 | 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... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 410 pages
...follows, is less obscure than most of his work : Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forsprnt. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love...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... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - 1884 - 314 pages
...of the night She also passed, somehow, somewhere. BALTIMORE. 1876. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent....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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1885 - 362 pages
...motion made." The "Ballad of Trees and the Master" is a poem that few readers will pass lightly by : u Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent...."Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well coûtent. Out of the woods my Master саше, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Julian Kennedy Smyth - 1891 - 248 pages
..." eight aged and gnarled olive-trees, upon which the suns of many centuries have risen and set." " Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent....the woods my Master went, And He was well content. THE PASSION OF THE CROSS. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts - American poetry - 1891 - 728 pages
...Calls o'er the hills of Haberebam, Calls through the valleys of Hall. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER. INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent....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 Garrett Horder - American poetry - 1896 - 408 pages
...That blow by the white gravestones. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER T NTO the woods my Master went, 1 Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master...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... | |
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Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods... 
