He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where... The Primitive Church Magazine - Página 391851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 páginas
...Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where...child. « They shall all bloom in fields of light, TranBplanted by my care, A.nd saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." 23 And... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...Paradise He hound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flowrets gay," The Eeaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, " Where he was once a child. " They shall all hloom in fields of light, Transplanted hy my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred... | |
| Epitaphs, Augustus John Cuthbert HARE - 1856 - 86 páginas
...bloom, For beyond the clouds and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child." MBS. HEMAXS. "THE mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. " Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Eeaper came... | |
| L. A. Holdich - 1856 - 122 páginas
...the young and the poor." LESSON XH. THE LITTLE BOAT AND THE YOUNG SAILOR. " And the mother gave, with tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the brighter land above." FAR away from us, over the great sea, is a country... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1857 - 242 páginas
...paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled : " Dear tokens of the earth are they Where...The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came... | |
| Rev. William Henry Lewis - 1857 - 100 páginas
...paradise He bound them in his sheaves. 14 My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where...and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew that she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,... | |
| St. John's in the Wilderness - 1857 - 166 páginas
...Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where...their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day. 'Twas an angel visited the green earth,... | |
| 1857 - 904 páginas
...Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My lord has need of these flow'rets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where...And Saints, upon their garments white, These sacred garments wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she... | |
| 1857 - 426 páginas
...their fond mother's side, Who lived to love and lose them — then she died." r Longfellow : — " The mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she...rind them all again In the fields of light above. " Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth,... | |
| 1857 - 848 páginas
...by their fond mother's side, Who lived to love and lose them—then she died." Longfellow:— •' The mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. " Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came... | |
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