My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray : 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 :... Elementary English: Based on Steps in English - Page 62by John Morrow - 1910Full view - About this book
| 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
...give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will...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
...as Mr. Lloyd began talking to Lady Norris she remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...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
...the hive of the race. Go and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream...; 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... | |
| 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
...one passage so beautiful, and so terse, that even at the risk of trying you, I must quote it : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...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
...could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...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... | |
| 1858 - 402 pages
...give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will...all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. There were reasons why we should look with more than common interest... | |
| 1858 - 740 pages
...skies so dull and gray : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, eweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things,...day long : And so make life, death, and that vast ibr erer One grand, sweet song. Charlti Kingiley. KEVIVAL IN AMERICA. THE following is from the report... | |
| Education - 1858 - 734 pages
...is God's work for us, and He will not withhold the reward. Teach the girls these things. Let them " Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that great forever, One grand, sweet song." OUR SCHOOLS. [From the Cambridge Chronicle. The evils described... | |
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