And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face... Stories from My Attic - Page 15by Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ' For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...care, And round My golden tent like lambs rejoice." ' BLAKE Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black,... | |
| Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 pages
...bodies and this sun-burnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...care And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice." 1 Thus our life here should be only an apprenticeship, to prepare us for the perfect enjoyment of God's... | |
| William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...this sunburnt face 15 Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. 68 ' For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish ; we shall...care, And round My golden tent like lambs rejoice."' 20 Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black... | |
| Dorothea Melinda Melden - 1914 - 178 pages
...bodies and this sun-burnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have l^arri'd the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall hear his voice, Saying: "some out from the grove, my love & care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice." * Selincourt,... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...and this sunburnt face 15 Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. " For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.' " 20 Thus did my mother say, and kissed me: And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black,... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. Tor when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish; we shall...When I from black and he from white cloud free, And rqund the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll shade him from the heat, till he can bear To lean in... | |
| John Galsworthy - 1919 - 478 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. "For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice 1" Learned the heat to bear! Those lambs he had watched in a field that afternoon, their sudden little... | |
| John Galsworthy - 1919 - 422 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. "For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice 1" Learned the heat to bear! Those lambs he had watched in a field that afternoon, their sudden little... | |
| John Galsworthy - 1919 - 428 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. "For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...grove, my love and care, And round my golden tent hike lambs rejoice !" Learned the heat to bear! Those lambs he had watched in a field that afternoon,... | |
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