 | John Camden Hotten - Carols - 1905 - 168 pages
...Carol " ; but I scarcely think it was composed later than the early part of the preceding century.] THE 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,... | |
 | Holidays - 1906 - 432 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! OLD BALLAD, [ 202 ] LEXINGTON SLOWLY... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1906 - 104 pages
...It flourishes like a flower ; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, 20 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 CLOUD 9 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY... | |
 | Rutland (England) - 1906 - 338 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. Chambers, in his " Book of Days"... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1908 - 472 pages
...little silver To line it well within. My song's begun and almost done, No longer can we stay ; So Heaven bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! GJ, Apl. 22, 1905. Grimsby. May-Pole. — Here [in the Bull-Ring] stood the shaft or Maypole, . .... | |
 | Eliza Gutch - Folklore - 1908 - 476 pages
...little silver To line it well within. My song's begun and almost done, No longer can we stay ; So Heaven bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! GJ, Apl. 22, 1905. Grimshy. May-Pole. — Here [in the Bull-Ring] stood the shaft or Maypole, . .... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 462 pages
...night And almost all this day. And now, returned back again, We have brought you a branch of May. " 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." SARAH K. BOLTON. I GO A-MAYING... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 730 pages
...they began the lovely carol — very well known in the country — of The Moon Shines Bright : Oh ! the Moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it was day ; Our Lord our God he called upon us all And begged us to wake and pray. Oh I Wake ! Oh ! Wake... | |
 | Education - 1920 - 684 pages
...dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give light, A little before it is day, So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May. From " English Folk-Rhymes," by Northall, p. 240, used by courtesy of the publishers, Kegan, Trench,... | |
 | 1928 - 222 pages
...span, It flourished 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. A GENERAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC... | |
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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. 
