 | Charles Hole - 1870 - 260 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 worship ! the robin is singing — Labour is worship ! the wild bee is ringing ; Listen !... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory ! — the flying cloud Ugh tens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle...Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune! FRANCES S. OSGOOD. SECTION XXVII. I. 124. AGRICULTURE.' PART FIRST. * BUT, sir, to come to more practical,... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...his own fair flowers, Look up in sunshine with a smile, And humbly bend in showers! XXIV.—LABOR. LABOR is rest from the sorrows that greet us, Rest...entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work,—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pil]ow; Work,—thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1880 - 568 pages
...night 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! " Mrs. Frances Osgood. How graphic and beautiful are the following lines of Cowper:— " By ceaseless... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 338 pages
...dark 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! syrens, tempters to evil. resolute, firm. stalwart, brave, strong. coooon, the silken ball in which... | |
 | 1880 - 404 pages
...rust assailetli ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory — the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens...only the dark future frightens ; Play the sweet keys, wouklst thou keep them in tune. Labor is health — lo ! the husbandman reaping, How through his veins... | |
 | Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 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, Idle hearts only the dark future frightens : Labour is rest from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from... | |
 | Charles H. Kent - 1881 - 144 pages
...rust assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory! — the liying cloud lightens; Only the waving wing changes and brightens,...the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune.'' Miss Flora McFlirasey, the young lady who had nothing to wear, was exceedingly unfortunate, but Miss... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 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...Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune. Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Work, — and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ;... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1881 - 176 pages
...into three classes : — . Simple, derived, phrase-prepositions. Give examples of each class. " Labour is rest from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from...us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us : Work, and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; Work, thou shalt ride over care's coming billow."... | |
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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... 
