 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...span, It flourishes like a flower ; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day ; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May !" In London, May-day was once as... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...span, It flonrishes like a flower ; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day ; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! ' In London, as has been said,... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day ; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! ' In London, as has been said, May-day was once as much observed as it was in any rural district.... | |
 | James Henry Dixon - Ballads, English - 1857 - 268 pages
...span, It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! THE HELSTONE FURRY-DAY SONG. [AT... | |
 | Robert Bell, James Henry Dixon - Ballads, English - 1857 - 264 pages
...dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! THE HELSTONE FURRY-DAY SONG. [AT Helstone, in Cornwall, the 8th of May is a day devoted to revelry... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...span, It flourishes like a flower, \Ye are here to-dav, and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day, So Cod bless you ail, both great and small, And send you a )u\ ful May. Stay 4, on In London, thirty years ago, When... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - Carols - 1861 - 240 pages
...Carol ; '' but I scarcely think it was composed later than the early part of the preceding century.] HE moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it was day, Our Lord, our God, he called on us, And bid us awake and pray. Awake, awake, good people all,... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 214 pages
...Carol;' but I scarcely think it was composed later than the early part of the preceding century.] HE moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it was day, Our Lord, our God, he called on us, And bid us awake and pray. Our Lord, our God, he died... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give alight, A little before it is day : So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! Old Song CXVI THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE Will you hear a Spanish lady How she woo'd an English man ?... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. 7. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day : So God bless you all, both great and small, THE KAVEN. 1. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,... | |
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The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! THE HELSTONE FURRY-DAY SONG. 
