 | Recitations - 1876 - 732 pages
...1'lay the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune. Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us, Rest, from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest...from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work — thou... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin -promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work, — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; Work, — thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow ; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow ! Work with... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Townsend - 1876 - 336 pages
...Play the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in tune. Labour is rest— from the sorrows that greet us ; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest from sin-promptings that ever intreat us ; Rest from world-syrens that lure us to ill. Work — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune ! Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest...from sin-promptings that ever entreat us ; Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. . Work, — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; "Work, —... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in tune ! Labour is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; Work — thou... | |
 | Poetry - 1878 - 272 pages
...the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune! Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest...from sin-promptings that ever entreat us ; Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work, — and pure slumbers will wait on thy pillow; Work, — thou... | |
 | Poetry - 1878 - 270 pages
...that ever entreat us; Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work, — and pure slumbers will wait on thy pillow ; Work, — thou shall ride over care's coming billow ; Lie not down 'neath Woe's weeping willow ; Work with a stout heart and resolute will ! Labor is health ! Lo, the... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...the sweet keys, would'st thou keep them in tune! Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us, Kest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Best from world. sirens that lure us to ill. "Work, — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1878 - 292 pages
...vexations that meet us ; llestfrom sin-promptings that ever entreat us ; liestfrom world-Sirens that lead us to ill. WORK, — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; WORK, — thou shalt ride o'er care's coming billow ; Lie not down wearied 'neath woe's weeping willow : WORK WITH... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...petty vexations that meet us, Rest from the sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world sirens that lure us to ill. Work — and pure slumbers shall...Care's coming billow ; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping-willow ; Work with a stout heart and resolute will ! Labor is health ! Lo, the husbandman... | |
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Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. 
