 THURSDAY. on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green : Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.  Random Rambles - Page 178by Louise Chandler Moulton - 1881 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...afterward what he sang to himself. It was William Blake that wrote these words : — HOLY THURSDAY. Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames' waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seemed, these... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...heathen, Turk, or Jew ; Where mercy, love, and pity dwell. There God is dwelling too. HOLY THURSDAY. 'TWAS on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green : Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's,... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...father made them all.' W. Cowper. CXLV. HOLY THURSDAY. WAS on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces Came children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green : Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1869 - 294 pages
...afterward what he sang to himself. It was William Blake that wrote these words : — HOLY THURSDAY. 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames' waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seemed, these... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...bade little children come to Him, and would not have them repulsed. Blake's poem begins — " 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...children walking two and two, in red and blue and green; Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...considered sublime. He died August 12, 182;. 'T WAS on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The ut died without the sight. The watchmen join their voice, And tuneful into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames' waters flow. Oh, what a multitude they seemed, these... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1884 - 204 pages
...John here do not know the poem." So Sarah gladly repeated William Blake's poem of HOLY THURSDAY. 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...children, walking two and two, in red, and blue, and grecn: Gray-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's,... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1884 - 364 pages
...painter-poet wrote his great song called " Holy Thursday," in which he describes the procession : — " Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came children walking two and two, in red and blue arjd green, Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome... | |
 | William Blake - 1885 - 302 pages
...heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too. HOLY THURSDAY. I on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came...children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green : Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Oh what a multitude they seemed,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...the procession of girls and the procession of boys in one of his singular engravings : — " 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, Came children walking two and two, in red, and bine, and green ; Grey-headed beadles walked before with wands as white as snow, Till into the high... | |
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