 | 1883 - 498 pages
...with northern ices cold. shut our eyes, the flowers bloom And on; We murmur, but the corn ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still. by these altars wreathed with flowers, And fields of fruits, awake again Thanksgiving for the golden... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1865 - 860 pages
...cheerful song of faith and fruition. It is with cultivated mind that,. '• God gives us with our ragged soil The power to make it Eden-fair, And richer fruits...toil Than summer-wedded islands bear. Who murmurs at Ma lot to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom ? • Or sighs for dainties far away, Beside... | |
 | 1879 - 474 pages
...flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill : We choose the shadow; but th<> sun, That cast it, shines behind us still. God gives us, with our rugged soil, The power to make it Eden fair ; And richer fruit, to crown our toil, Than Summer-wedded islands bear. Who murmurs at his... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines...with our rugged soil The power to make it Eden-fair, Who murmurs at his lot to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom ? Or sighs for dainties far away,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines...with our rugged soil The power to make it Eden-fair, Who murmurs at his lot to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom V Or sighs for dainties far away,... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1874 - 542 pages
...shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it, shines...gives us with our rugged soil The power to make it Eden fair, And richer fruits to crown our toil Than summer-bedded islands bear. And let our altars,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines...to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom ? Or sighs for dainties far away, Beside the bounteous board of home ? Thank Heaven, instead, that Freedom's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines...to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom ? Or sighs for dainties far away, Beside the bounteous board of home ? Thank Heaven, instead, that Freedom's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1874 - 500 pages
...shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, hut the corn-ears fill; We choose the shadow, hut.the sun That casts it shines behind us still. God gives...summer-wedded islands bear. Who murmurs at his lot to-day? Whoscornshis native fruit and bloom? Or sighs for dainties far away, Beside the hounteous hoard of... | |
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O gifts with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still. 
