 Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.  The Young Englishwoman - Page 122by BEETON - 1875Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...blessedness and delight, but also sweetly commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and the vast ' for ever ' One grand sweet song." This, then, is the message... | |
 | England - 1876 - 818 pages
...and been the father of a man able and willing to take the poet's advice — " Be good, my friend, nnd let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; So making life, death, and that vast For Ever, One grand, sweet song. " Such is the man whom I would... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...so dull and grey ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS'... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...talking to Lady Norris she remained silent till they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that rast for ever One grand, sweet song."— C. KINOSLEY. " MY dear,... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...so dull and grey ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long; Andsomake life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. IpOM'S rOLD boy knows how to... | |
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...the hive of the race. Go and learn from some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so, make life, death, and that vast forever, A grand, sweet song." When Indolence usurps the... | |
 | 644 pages
...so dull and grey ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you, For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, und that vast for ever, One grand sweet song. Forgiveness. — He who others,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...right,' they say to the pupil —why? that be may escape punishment. Not so, says the poet Kingsley. " 'Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " The speaker declared that only... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Cholera - 1857 - 660 pages
...righteousness. Do you recollect, Queen Whims, what I wrote . once in your album ? ' Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; So making life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song.' " " But, yon naughty, hypocritical... | |
 | 1859 - 316 pages
...beautiful, and so terse, that even at the risk of trying you, I must quote it : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." as some one, doubtless fresh... | |
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