 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...flow'rets gay, The Reaper said, and smiled ; Dear tokens of the earth are they Where He was once a child. " And the mother gave, in tears and pain The flowers she most did love, She knew she would find them all again In the fields of light above J." The language of mourners is now that of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of tho earth are they, Where he was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light,...did love ; She knew she should find them all again Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said and smiled ; " Dear tokens of...their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.'' She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O ! not in cruelty, not in wrath,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...flowerets gay,' : The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light,...gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'T was an angel visited the green earth,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. They shall all bloom in fields of light,...by my care ; And saints upon their garments white, And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them... | |
 | 1855 - 560 pages
...and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, ' Where he was once a child. " They all shall Wmm in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garbs of white, These sacred blossoms wear." And tlK mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowersj3he... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 pages
...flowerets gay," The Eeaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light,...by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them... | |
 | L. A. Holdich - 1856 - 122 pages
...the young and the poor." LESSON XH. THE LITTLE BOAT AND THE YOUNG SAILOR. " And the mother gave, with tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the brighter land above." FAR away from us, over the great sea, is a country through which there flows... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...earth are they, Where He was once a child. « They shall all bloom in fields of light, TranBplanted by my care, A.nd saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." 23 And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find... | |
 | Rev. William Henry Lewis - 1857 - 100 pages
...flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light,...and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew that she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,... | |
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He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. '' My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they,... 
