 | Mary Kirby - 1857 - 396 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk ; doth make man better be ; Or standing long, an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last— dry, bald, and sear : A lily...that night, It was the plant and flower of light. fttr % Sfomlg-suonb. THE PINE-APPLE AND THE "WILD PINES. THE third division* of the lilies is named... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 pages
...him, but he shall not return to me." — Second Book of Samuel. A SHORT LIFE MAY BE A PERFECT ONE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BXH JOHSOH. THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. • " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme, For thy rich gifts,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music in their ear. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. CAREW. THOMAS CAREW was born AD 1589, and descended from a family of the same name, long settled in... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 282 pages
...him, but he shall not return to me." — Second Book of Samuel. A SHORT LIFE MAY BE A PERFECT ONE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures Kfe may perfect be. BEK JOKBOK. THE MOTHER'S SACELFICE. " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme,... | |
 | 1859 - 926 pages
...gives him a throw. SOUTH. A GATHERED LILY. "A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it full and die that night, It was the plant and flower of...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." OUR little Lilian is dead. The unwelcome angel has for the first time darkened our door, quenched the... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...empires aught 10 Within those empty hands unto the grave had brought.] THE GOOD LIFE A LONG LIFE. 10 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, | doth make...hundred year To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere.] A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, | Although it fall and die that night ; | It was the plant... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 pages
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day Is fairer far in May — Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...flow, From the sky at silent even For the morning's glorious show. HUMAN PEKFECTION. IB ra % nnsraIT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sore. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 pages
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. A s the years go on, there gathers a special radiance of eternal youth around some of the figures from... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - 294 pages
...were fulfilled, "In sorrow shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life." CHAPTER XXXV. LONG LIFE. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." B. THE long lives of men in the early history of the orld are a matter of interest to us, whose term... | |
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A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. 
