 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! 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... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 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 difficulties came, as from a source... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...that he did not know how that could be, for he had been practising all night.' CXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 2. I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said •. Her hair was thick with many... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...But be ndmonish'd by his grave, And think, and fear 1 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 * I met a little cottage girl; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...the Lord; praise him and magnify TIJTTI for ever.1* WE ABE 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 ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1853 - 248 pages
...prove The blessed influence of love. EB THE CHILD AT THE TOMB. "A little child That lightly draws Ha breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 1 I MKT one morning a little girl with a half-playful countenance, beaming blue eyes and sunny locks,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. 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... | |
 | Poetry book - Children's poetry - 1854 - 152 pages
...and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly 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... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 pages
...and He was the light of her life. LESSON 37. WE ARE SEVEN; OK, A CHILD'S NOTION OF DEATH. -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... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...all the rest ? Child, it is God who loves thee best. 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 ? 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... 
