 On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.  Works - Page 61by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...Too true présagea of his future doom." So a translation from the Persian by Sir William Jones:— " smiled: So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 482 pages
...child, and set him in the midst of them. — Matthew xviii. 2. IT was an Oriental poet who sang : — " On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last, long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1895 - 730 pages
...William Jones's, translated from an Arabian source, which will doubtless be familiar to some of you : "On parent knees a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled. So live that, sinking in thy long last sleep Thou calm may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...CHURCH. ON parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou satt'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. SIR WILLIAM JONES. 358 Men have died from time to time, and worms have... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...ling'ring on from partial death to death, Till, dying, all he can resign is — breath. j. THOMSON. can ON Parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou...while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking on thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile, while all around thee weep. SIR w. JONES. CCiv ON THE... | |
 | Education - 1896 - 716 pages
...version from the pen of Sir William Jones, who was, I believe, a great Persian scholar (1746-1794). On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep. Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout ! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around the* smiled; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around... | |
 | Charles Frederic Goss - Optimism - 1897 - 268 pages
...the little child itself, as soon as it can comprehend, teach it this verse from a Persian song : " On parent knees, a naked, new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thce... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMKRSON. " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thec smiled : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around... | |
 | Thomas Cuming Hall - 1901 - 372 pages
...WILLIAM JONES When thou wast born, a naked helpless child, Thou only wept while all around thee smiled. So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep. I BOYHOOD DAYS THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER. THE FAMILY HOME. EARLY TRAINING. SCHOOL LIFE. THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE.... | |
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