 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labour is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune. MRS FRANCES OSGOOD, 1812-1850. — American. BREVITY OF HUMAN LIFE. LIKE as the damask rose you see,... | |
 | 1864 - 334 pages
...assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labour is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune. MRS FRANCES OSGOOD, 1812-1850. — American. BREVITY OF HUMAN LIFE. LIKE as the damask rose you see,... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the si illness of noon. Exercise is glorious ! the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens; Flay the sweet keys would you keep them In tune." There are two modes of exercise which contribute,... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 pages
...rust assaileth ! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest from sin promptings that ever entreat us ; Rest from world sirens tha,t lure us to ilL Work — and pure... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...rust aesaileth ! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...— from the sorrows that greet us ; Rest from all peliy vexations that meet us. Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 pages
...assaileth ! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labour is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...Play the sweet keys would'st thou keep them in tune ! Labour is rest — from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest... | |
 | 1865 - 326 pages
...assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labour is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens;...Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune. Labour is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...rust assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon : Labour is glory ! The flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...Play the sweet keys, would'st thou keep them in tune. Labour is rest, from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...assaileth ! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labour is glory ! — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...Play the sweet keys would'st thou keep them in tune! FRANCIS SABGENT OSGOOD. MAN. [This beautiful poem, from a MS. of very old date, has been attributed... | |
 | 1866 - 344 pages
...dark rust assaileth : Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory. The flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...dark future frightens : Play the sweet keys, wouldst thoti keep them in tune. Labor is rest from the sorrows that' greet us ; Rest from all petty vexations... | |
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Tis the still water faileth, Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth, Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth, Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory, — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens... 
