 Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.  Education - Page 821895Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...helplessness is their best guarantee of safety — they exert a most humanizing influence in the world. S " 0 what would the world be to us If the children were...Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood —... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...thoughts the brooklets flow. But in mine is the wind of autumn , And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were...Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 642 pages
...Lisburn, Ireland. The verse — Ah ! what would the world be to ui, If the children were no more 1 We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before, is from HW Longfellow's • Children.' WALTER HAMILTON. TOWELL (8th S. ii. 485).— The use of to -at... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...Without an unkind word ! Speak gently to the erring — know They may have toiled in vain ; CHILDREN. Ah, what would the world be to us If the children were...Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood —... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1909 - 784 pages
...of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise." And the beloved Longfellow, "Oh! What would the world be to us, If the children were...the desert behind us, Worse than the dark before." The mother of our own George Washington has said: "Mothers, what a holy charge is theirs— with what... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...thoughts, the brooklet's flow, But in mine in the wind of Autumn And the Erst fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...hue, and the other its sweet harmony. Well may |Tongfelloki's sweet refrain touch our hearts : " Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were...Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood... | |
 | Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...brooklet's flow, But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what wonld the world be to us If the children were no more ?...behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened... | |
 | Bridget Storey (fict. name.) - 1859 - 306 pages
...that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children wer& no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. LONOFELLOW. next morning Bridget did not awake till the -L noise of some one pulling up her blind aroused... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...thoughts the brooklet's flow ; But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? \Ve should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest,... | |
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