 | Unitarianism - 1868 - 532 pages
...o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-worn merit, Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labor sings : A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What does the poor man's son inherit? A patience learned by being' poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Cycle - 1871 - 202 pages
...rank adjudged by toil-won merit ; Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labour sings : A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience, learn'd of being poor ; Courage, if sorrow come,... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...Courage, if sorrow comes, to bear it, A fellow-feeling that is sure To make the outcast bless his door : A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. Oh, rich man's son ! there is a toil That with all others level stands, Large charity doth never soil,... | |
 | Recitations - 1872 - 216 pages
...o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-worn merit, Content that from enjoyment springs, A heart that in his labor sings ; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What does the poor man's son inherit? A patience learned by being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 296 pages
...rank adjudged by toil-worn merit; Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labour sings. A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience learned of being poor ; Courage, if sorrow come,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...rank adjudged by toil- won merit, Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labour sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience learned of being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it, A fellow-feeling that is sure To make the outcast bless the door ; rrible things with shady wings, Both, heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last ; Both, children of the same dear... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Recitations - 1872 - 218 pages
...white hands — This is the best crop from thy lands ; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee. O poor man's son ! scorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great : Toil only gives the soul to... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...soft, white hands; That is the best crop from the lauds; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee. O poor man's son, scorn not thy state! There is worse weariness (ban thine, In merely being rich and great ; Work only makes the soul to shine,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil.won merit, Content that from employment sprmgs, A heart that in his labor sings ; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man's eon inherit? A patience learned of being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
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King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. 
