 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 500 pages
...has its being in eternity. It knows nothing of the beginning of life, or of its ending. " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And. feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? " " Over it immortality broods like the day." But, above all, how absolute and... | |
 | Bereavement - 1848 - 154 pages
...through every chance and change, the same for evermore. ANONYMOUS. THE AFFECTIONATE LITTLE GIRL. " A little child That lightly draws its breath And feels...life in every limb— What should it know of death?" WORDSWORTH. AT Smyrna, the burial-ground of the Armenian, like that of the Moslem, is removed a short... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers (Elementary) - 1844 - 184 pages
...the noblest revenge I could take — returning good for evil." LESSON XXII. We are Seven. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl,... | |
 | Tales - 1849 - 300 pages
...range j Life is a motley shifting show, And thou a tiling of hope and change ! WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pages
...looks behind ; And sings a soHtary song That whistles in the wind. WOHDSWOBTH. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? " But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere, ' A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?' But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere — A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death •? 1 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803. • Composed iu Loudou i I met a little... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Children - 1852 - 168 pages
...Saviour's arms, For ever undefiled, Amid the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. are • A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its...life in every limb, What should it know of death! I MET a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
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A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a... 
