| Mary Botham Howitt - 1849 - 560 pages
...Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower... | |
| Charles Northend - 1866 - 172 pages
...for great and small, — The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at aii. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Rcquirelh none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1849 - 194 pages
...Enough for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requiieth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus... | |
| 1853 - 408 pages
...for remembering we must part. — HF (To be continued,) THE USE OF FLOWEES. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small ; The...toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountains mine, Reqnireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus flower, To make the river flow.... | |
| Miss Colman (Pamela Atkins) - 1850 - 146 pages
...the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, We might have hud enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowera. The ore within the mountain mine Kequireth none to grow; Nor doth it need the lotus-Bower... | |
| 1837 - 218 pages
...RURAL REPOSITORY. CD aava as? & a a li, I >.- of Flowers. BY MAHV HOWITT. GOD might have bade the eanh bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree...flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, Kor every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within... | |
| 1852 - 608 pages
...90 USES OP FLOWERS. — FALLING LEAVES. THE USE ОГ Г LOWER в . ВТ MARY GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small — The...toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow. The... | |
| Tom (uncle, pseud) - 1852 - 368 pages
...two of the stanzas ; — as nearly as my memory serves, they run thus — " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The...medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. Our outward life requires them not, Then wherefore had they birth ? To minister delight to man, To... | |
| N. L. Ferguson - 1852 - 286 pages
...voiceless men are able to do? -(2) THE USE OF FLOWERS. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The...medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. Then, wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest... | |
| Asahel Abbott - 1852 - 448 pages
...might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small — The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough,...toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow. The... | |
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