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" I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy. "
Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader - Page 164
1863
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Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, Volume 2

Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club - Natural history - 1854 - 378 pages
...youth, although the recollection tells us that the freshness, the sentiment, the poetry of life is gone. I remember, I remember, the fir-trees dark and high, I used to think their slender spires were close against the sky. I remember, I remember, the roses red and white, The violets and...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...swallows on the wing : My spirit flow in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember...tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignoranee, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG...
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Study for Young Men; Or, a Sketch of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 pages
...applies : — " I remember — I remember The poplars straight and high ; I used to think their spiry tops Were close against the sky. " It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To KNOW I 'm further off from heaven Than when I mas a boy." Sir Powell Buxton delighted...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was...
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...swallows on the wing : My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish...
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Forget-me-not: Or, the Philipena

Mrs. J. S. F. Lunt - English poetry - 1853 - 144 pages
...That is so heavy now, And the summer pool could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! TO A FRIEND. 16 I remember, I remember The fir-trees, dark and high; I used to think their slender spires Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance,— But now ft is little joyTo know...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, with a Biographical Sketch

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember...against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I 'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. BALLAD. SIGH on, sad heart,...
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Totemwell

George Payson - 1854 - 530 pages
...I was thinking of the lines, Hood's I believe they are, — ' 1 remember t I remember the fir trees dark and high, I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky. I'm wiser now than I was then ; but, ah ! 'tis little joy, To think I'm farther off from heaven than...
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A cyclopędia of sacred poetical quotations, ed. by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner ADAMS - 1854 - 762 pages
...noontide, and at even; And do Thy will, and know Thy word, That I may be Thy child in heaven! W. Martin. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high, I used to think their tiny tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy, To know...
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