Oh, yes, mamma ! how very gay Its wings of starry gold ! And see ! it lightly flies away Beyond my gentle hold. " Oh, mother, now I know full well, If God that worm can change, And draw it from this broken cell On golden wings to range — How beautiful... Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Page 1844edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
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...mamma! how very gay Its wings of starry gold ! And see ! it lightly flies away Beyond my gentle hold. O, mother, now I know full well, If God that worm can...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things!" IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD? WB TAPPAN. 'Tis well with her, who on that bed Of sickness, late, was laid... | |
| John Keese - Bereavement - 1844 - 140 pages
...mamma! how very gay Iig wings of starry gold ! And see ! it lightly flies away Beyond my gentle hold. O, mother, now I know full well, If God that worm can...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things I " IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD? WB TXPPAN. Tis well with her, who on that bed Of sickness, late, wag... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...now I know full well If God that worm can change, And draw it from this broken cell, On golden wiogs to range, How beautiful will brother be, When God...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things !" 17. CASABIANCA. — Hemcms. Young Ca.ablanra, a boy about thirte ' post (in the wen abandon ached... | |
| Samuel Francis Smith - Gift books - 1844 - 140 pages
...flies away Beyond my gentle hold ! O, mother, now I know full well — If God that worm can change, How beautiful will brother be, When God shall give...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things ! " BLESSED ARE THE DEAD. MRS. SIGOUHNEY. THEY dread no storm that lowers, No perished joys bewail,... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...flies !" " Oh, yes, mamma ! how very gay Its wings of starry gold — And see ! it lightly flies away Oh, mother, now I know full well — If God that worm...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things !" 17. CASABIANCA. — Henums. Young Casablanca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the admiral... | |
| Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...mamma, how very gay Its wings of starry gold. And see, it lightly flies away Beyond my gentle hold. " O mother, now I know full well, If God that worm can...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things." OILMAN. LINES, WRITTEN FOR A SOCIETY WHOSE MOTTO WAS " FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUTH." WHEN " Friendship,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...! how very gay Its wings of starry gold ! And see ! it lightly flies away Beyond my gentle hold. O, mother, now I know full well, If God that worm can...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things !" Last Prayers. — MARY ANN BROWNE. " O, true and ferveat are the prayera that breathe Forth from... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...love — An empty shell it lies ; Now raise your wondering glance above. To where yon insect nies." " Oh ! yes, mamma, how very gay Its wings of starry...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things ! " On. Guam. Cabinet. SCRIPTURAL CHARITY. "New the end of the commandment ia charity oat of a pure... | |
| Bereavement - 1848 - 154 pages
...Oh, mother, now I know full well If God that worm could change, And draw it from this broken shell On golden wings to range, — " How beautiful will...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things !" GILMAK. I THE LITTLE LONELY GEAVE. 7T THE LITTLE LONELY GRAVE. OH, very sad it makes me feel, Thus... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - American poetry - 1849 - 288 pages
...gentle hold. " O, mother, now I know full well — If God that worm can change, And draw it from its broken cell, On golden wings to range ; " How beautiful...dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things." 1827. A SKETCH. THE gay saloon was thronged with grace and beauty, While brilliant rays shone out on... | |
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