 | George Benjamin Woods - LITERARY COLLECTIONS - 1916 - 1604 pages
...homeward all take off their sev'ral way; 155 The youngling cottagers retire to rest; The parent-pair t the food of worms, 0 virgin of the skies, How raven 's clam 'rous nest,* And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,8 160 Would, in the way His wisdom... | |
 | Dougall MacDougall King - Consumption - 1917 - 276 pages
...dismay. Teach your children wisely and carefully the dangers of life, and for the rest leave it to Him "who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride." CHAPTER VII STRENGTHENING THE HOME FORCES IN national politics it is always a more or less perplexing... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 436 pages
...Then homeward all take off their several way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest ; The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request And He who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1920 - 390 pages
...poor enroll. Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; , The youngling cottagers retire to rest : The parent pair their secret homage pay, And proffer...Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 424 pages
...Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest : The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clatn'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...poor enroll. Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent pair their secret homage pay, And proffer...Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest; The parent-pair Thebs, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled h clam'rous nest And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heav'n assionate language does of itself become musical,...speech of a man even in zealous anger becomes a cha l6° For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Wilson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1925 - 372 pages
...homeward all take off their sev'ral way ; The youngling Cottagers retire to rest : The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His Wisdom sees the best,... | |
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He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. 
