Cheerily, then, my little man, Live and laugh, as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward. Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the cool wind kiss the... Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 180by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire. I was monarch: pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy! Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...down in ceaseless moil: Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ah! that thou... | |
| Children's poetry - 1861 - 316 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod. Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous... | |
| Children's poetry - 1861 - 320 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod. . Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Loose the freedom of the sod. Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil. Up and... | |
| John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...hide In the prison-cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, 889 Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil : Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ah ! that... | |
| Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Loose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Loose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and... | |
| Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 276 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...the heat ; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison-cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the... | |
| Children's poetry - 1868 - 220 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptism of the dew ; Every evening, from thy feet, Shall the...freedom of the sod — Like a colt's, for work be shod. Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...slopes be hard, Stubble-speared the new-mown sward, Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the...these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Loose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and... | |
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