 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1909 - 1112 pages
...is made to point a noble moral : 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 tnou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. On the other hand. Sir Thomas Browne, quoting from Aristotle... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - Conduct of life - 1910 - 326 pages
...finger touched him and he slept. Here are four lines that beautifully describe ideal dying : "On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping, thou sat'st,...sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." This IOAN DEPT. L,D 21A-50>n-4 '60 (A9562slO)476B .General Library rmyp*... | |
 | Claud Field - Reference - 1911 - 368 pages
...hama giriyan, tu bashi khandan." " On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou satst, when all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, when all around thee weep." SIR W. JONEs. " When Fate at last makes flagons of my clay, With wine,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Old age - 1911 - 224 pages
...nisi mortis imago ? Hom. II. XIV. 231, Death's brother, Sleep ; Sir Wm. Jones, from the Persian : — So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep ; Scott's Lady 'of the Lake, Cant. I.: — Sleep the sleep that knows not... | |
 | American fiction - 1911 - 534 pages
...new-born child, Weeping thou satst, whilst all around thee smiled ; So live that, sinking in death's last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, whilst all around thee weep." Here is a curious one on the death of the Earl of Kildare : — "Who kill'd Kildare? Who dar'd Kildare... | |
 | Book collecting - 1912 - 878 pages
...Persian and recited it to him : 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, Smiles may be thine while all around thee weep. His long day's work was done, and well done, and with... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1914 - 284 pages
...the following extract : — " Once on thy mother's knee, a 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 thee weep." 4. Attempt only one of the following : — (a) Describe, in the form of... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...LOGAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; 80 live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. From the Persi' What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know, But... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 406 pages
...Simpkins, with a knowing wink. ON parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping, thou sat'st, when all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee weep. From the Persian, THE hours of sleep are thus expressed in a rhyme, the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Persian On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd : So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee weep. Written in Berkeley's " Siris " Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth,... | |
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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. 
