 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 :...  Powell's domestic magazine - Page 281860Full view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1858 - 188 pages
...the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL. i. ~]l TY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark...we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...under it.—Atlantic Monthly. PARTING ADMONITION—BY CHAS. KINOSLKY. My fairest cbild, I have no aong to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray ; Tet, ere we part one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
 | 1859 - 396 pages
...breath, We seek thy grace alone, In childhood, manhood, age, and death, To keep us all thine own ! A FAREWELL. 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... | |
 | 1861 - 320 pages
...he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. A FAREWELL. 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... | |
 | 1861 - 316 pages
...from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior! A FAREWELL. LONGFELLOW. 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... | |
 | 302 pages
...cow hay, and cow gave mouse it..-,, ana mouse gave cat milk, and cat gave mouse her own tail again. 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... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1864 - 318 pages
...he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. A FAREWELL. 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... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...The dream is broken — I have seen A mother die : — I'm silent now. ELIZA COOK. A FAREWELL. j\Y 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... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 pages
...cares and follies ! go this way And thou art sure to prosper all the day. H. Vauzhan cm TO A CHILD 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 436 pages
...their closing day ! How blest from earth's vain show to pass away ! a Cljilti. REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY. 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... | |
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