 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 páginas
...helplessness is their best guarantee of safety — they exert a most humanizing influence in the world. S " 0 what would the world be to us If the children were...dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices... | |
 | 1876 - 396 páginas
...your thoughts the brooklets flow. But in mine is the wind of autumn , And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children...dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | 1893 - 642 páginas
...Lisburn, Ireland. The verse — Ah ! what would the world be to ui, If the children were no more 1 We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before, is from HW Longfellow's • Children.' WALTER HAMILTON. TOWELL (8th S. ii. 485).— The use of to -at... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...Without an unkind word ! Speak gently to the erring — know They may have toiled in vain ; CHILDREN. Ah, what would the world be to us If the children...dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1909 - 784 páginas
...of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise." And the beloved Longfellow, "Oh! What would the world be to us, If the children were...the desert behind us, Worse than the dark before." The mother of our own George Washington has said: "Mothers, what a holy charge is theirs— with what... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 páginas
...thoughts, the brooklet's flow, But in mine in the wind of Autumn And the Erst fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 páginas
...its hue, and the other its sweet harmony. Well may |Tongfelloki's sweet refrain touch our hearts : " Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children...dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | 1859 - 440 páginas
...brooklet's flow, But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what wonld the world be to us If the children were no more ?...dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 220 páginas
...Jl-. .. 1..- J *. ^Ui Jl Stonj for % Jtoung. MES. SC HALL, AUTHOR OF "UNCLE SAM'S MONEY-BOX," ETC. 'Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more! \Ve should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before." LONGFELLOW. LONDON: G. EOUTLEDGE... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 páginas
...your thoughts the brooklet's flow ; But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? \Ve should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest,... | |
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Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. 
