 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...purest and sweetest that natflre can yield ; How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, Then...And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well — /-V '\X\^\^V'VV*VVWVWVi'V-'.rt The old oaken bucket — the iron-bound bucket — The moss-covered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white -pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth...old oaken bucket— the iron-bound bucket — The moss covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As poised... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...a treasure — How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth...bucket — The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 3 How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, How quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth...well. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 302 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; • Then soon with the emblem of...from the well : The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound Ducket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive... | |
 | George Kingsley - Vocal music - 1849 - 214 pages
...glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth o'erflowing, And dripping with coolness it rose from the well,...bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. DUETT. THE SPELLS OF HOME Page 56. 2d & 3d verses. By the sleeping ripple of the stream, Which hath... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Pumping machinery - 1849 - 634 pages
...The purest and sweetest that nature cau yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell : Then...the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with cooluess, it rose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim-to receive it, At poised on the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 164 pages
...purest and sweetest that nature could yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, Then...sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As pois'd on the curb, it inclined to my lips ! Not a full flowing goblet could tempt me to leave it,... | |
 | Elias Nason - Hymns - 1850 - 126 pages
...ardent I eiezed it with hands that were glowing. And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, And soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping...The old oaken bucket — the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket arose from the well. 3 How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As pois'd... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...nature can yield. How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth...it. As poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips ! Xot a full, blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter... | |
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That moss-covered vessel I hailed as a treasure ; For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And... 
