 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...things; A rank adjudged by toil-worn merit; Content that from employment springs ; A heart that in its 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 comes, to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 pages
...o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won 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 doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience learned of being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 524 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 doth the poor man's son inherit? A patience learned of being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 522 pages
...Courage, if sorrow come, 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. O rich man's son! there is a toil That with all others level stands; Large charity doth never soil, But... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre, Charles Edward Plumptre - Criticism - 1898 - 418 pages
...A hardy frame, a hardier spirit, King of two hands, he doth his part In every useful toil and art : A heritage it seems to me A king might wish to hold in fee." Yet sympathetic as Lowell was with the labouring classes, he could hardly be called a democrat in the... | |
 | Sherman Williams - Readers - 1898 - 514 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 shine,... | |
 | Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899 - 248 pages
...o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won 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 doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience learned of being poor, Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1899 - 702 pages
...Wishes o'erjoyed with bumble things, A rank with 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 dath the poor man's son inherit? A patience learned by being poor, Courage, if sorrow comes, to... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 312 pages
...hardy frame, a hardier spirit ; 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. What doth the poor man's son inherit? A patience learned of being poor ; Courage, if sorrow come, to... | |
 | Frank E. Moynahan - Danvers (Mass.) - 1899 - 224 pages
...has been the faith that builds for the future, and still creates and bequeaths the goodly heritage : "A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee." NOTE. — With regard to some of the many names, dates, figures, etc., which appear m the foregoing... | |
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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. 
