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 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 684 pages
...of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half-wean'd his heart from God ; (Child of his age,) for him he lived in pain, And measured back his... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead With heaping coals of firo upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | English poetry - 1887 - 842 pages
...compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of tire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. "Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, Hut now the child... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coal» of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half -weaned his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measured back his steps... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 450 pages
...bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, Wi th heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious frieid in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...of fire upon ita head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half-wean'd his heart from God ; Child of his age, for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1894 - 544 pages
...fire upon its head ; la the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half weaned his heart from God ; Child of his age, for him he lived in pain, And measured back his steps... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. ' Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
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