 | Alice Cary - Indiana - 1873 - 328 pages
...cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren, But alway the path that is narrow And straight, for the children of men. 'Tis not in the pages of story... | |
 | Alice Cary - Indiana - 1874 - 324 pages
...avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren, But alway the path that is narrow And straight, for the children of men. 'Tis not in the pages of story The heart of its ills to beguile, Though he who makes courtship to glory... | |
 | Alice Cary, Mary Clemmer - 1876 - 464 pages
...cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren, But alway the path that is narrow And straight, for the children of men. 'T is not in the pages of story... | |
 | Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer - 1876 - 468 pages
...cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren, But alway the path that is narrow And straight, for the children of 'T is not in the pages of story The... | |
 | 1882 - 584 pages
...do wrong and feel right : Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for...catch them like fishes in nets ; And sometimes the things our life misses Helps more than the thing which it gets. For good lieth not in pursuing Nor... | |
 | American literature - 1882 - 404 pages
...finds and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light." 55. * " The air for the wing of the sparrow. The bush for...that is narrow And straight for the children of men." 56. " Now in thy youth beseech of Him, Who giveth upbraiding not. That His light in thy heart become... | |
 | Caroline Bigelow Le Row - Elocution - 1882 - 222 pages
...cannot do wrong and love right; Nor can we give pain and get pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren ; But nlway the path that is narrow And strait for the children of men. 'Tis not in the pages of story The... | |
 | Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary - American poetry - 1882 - 466 pages
...avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren, But alway the path that is narrow And straight, for the children of men. 'T is not in the pages of story The heart of its ills to beguile, Though he who makes courtship to... | |
 | Horace Andrew Wadsworth - 1883 - 296 pages
...cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for...that is narrow And straight for the children of men. " Tis not in the pages of story The heart of its ills to beguile, Though he who makes courtship to... | |
 | Ellen M. Raynor, Emma L. Petitclerc - Cheshire (Mass. : Town) - 1885 - 244 pages
...admirable coolness the efforts of the stern deacons, and church committees who tried so hard to lead her in the path that is narrow and straight for the children of men. As frequently as every alternate mouth they went to confer with Sister Carpenter concerning the "feelings... | |
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For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth. We get back our mete as we measure — We cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure,... 
