 | Book - 1859 - 334 pages
...birds from every bough, When earth was nearer heaven than now. Thomas Miller 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1859 - 114 pages
...BY WILLIAM THOMAS, EDMUND EVANS, JAMES COOPER, THOMAS BOLTON, AND SV SLADER. 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 ; i Her hair was thick with many... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 pages
...'when we wake; his praise shall dwell continually upon our lips, -s XLIL — WE AEE 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,... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...sorrow and shame, Went back to Serendib as sad as he came. Poetical World. WE ARK SEVEN. -A SIHPIJI 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... | |
 | Elementary books - 1860 - 270 pages
...tell me that I am worse than the tigers." 21. WE ARK SEVEN J OR, 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... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time For the long-faded glories they cover. MOORE. nn 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... | |
 | Mourning mother - 1861 - 102 pages
...from the world, its sin and snares, Thy infant rests in heaven. BISHOP DOANE. WE AEE 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...grief I told ; And I gave money to the host. To buy a new cloak for the old. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...name led all the rest. LEIGH HUKT. WE ABE SEVEN. 18. WE AKE 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... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...to guard against surprise from every quarter. — Gusse. LESSON XLVIII. — WE ARK 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... | |
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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... 
