 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...aim," &c. " 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, Aud decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...poor enrol. Then homeward all take off their several 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'rons nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Matilda Wrench - 1847 - 94 pages
...ear, we fervently exclaimed (as again they died away), in the words of their native poet:— " May He who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Yet, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...their sev'ral way ; The youngling cottagers retire to rest .. The parent- pair their lecret homa9e 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 hest,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...poor enrol. 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'rout nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...eternal sphere. 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 lie who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...rest: The parent pair their secret homage pay, XVIII. Then homeward all take off their several way; And proffer up to Heaven the warm request That He who stills the raven's clamorous nest, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, For them and... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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...pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, « Pope's Windsor Forest. 402 THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. For them and for their little ones provide... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 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,... | |
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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. 
