 Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 4801839Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 976 pages
...done her work. Charlie and Edith were ver dear to him now, and she was wanted in the LOBI> garden. " Oh not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that...'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flower away." On All Saints' Day they carried Clara to her last home. Her father was there and Charlie,... | |
 | John Hullett - 1859 - 528 pages
...; and jagged the tender plant with pain, and anguish, and sorrow, and woe ; and then it fell. " 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that...'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flower away." This is a little episode, a parenthesis, in my sermon, intended for children, to shew... | |
 | Egerton Douglas Hammond, Maximillian Montague Hammond - 1858 - 402 pages
...idol of a child, seeing that they may be snatched away in a moment. But— " ' Oh not in anger nor in wrath The reaper came that day; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flower away.' The sweet boy is far above the reach of the turmoil and trouble of this world of sin.... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 pages
...These sacred blossoms wear." 3* And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'T was an angel visited the green earth... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1858 - 776 pages
...little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of God." Christian parents, be assured " Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel that visited the green earth, And took the flowers away." " They are happy now, and ye Soon their happiness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 760 pages
...These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...These sacred blossoms wear." And tie mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light ahovc. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; Twas an angel visited the green... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 pages
...And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Oh ! not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came...; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took my flower away. LONGFELLOW. 587. Strangers may pause to mark who sleeps below, Perchance a friend may... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...These saered blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. . Oh, not in eruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper eame that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took... | |
 | 1859 - 142 pages
...These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth,... | |
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