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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. "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 135
edited by - 1829
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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 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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The poems of Robert Burns. (Bell and Daldy's pocket vols.).

Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 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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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...lake off their sev'ral way ; The youngling cottagers retire to rest : The parent pair their ttcret 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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The Harvard Magazine, Volume 2

1856 - 502 pages
...of every good. The circle is broken, yet still ascends the "secret homage" of the " parent pair," " That he who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, AVould, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly...
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The Christian Home: As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church. Showing ...

S. Phillips - History - 1865 - 392 pages
...individual can be no effectual substitute for it. " The parents pair their secret homage, And offer up to heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's elamorouy nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,...
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Golden Leaves from the British Poets

John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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 flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volumes 31-32

1866 - 744 pages
...off their sev'ral way ; The youngling cottagers retire to rest ; The parent-pair their secret Iwmage 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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The Christian Home as it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church: Showing ...

Samuel Phillips - Booksellers and bookselling - 1866 - 412 pages
...effectual substitute for it. FAMILY RELIGION. 43 " The parents pair their secret homage, And offer up to heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clamoroua nest. And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,...
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Kindly Words to a Country Flock. [Sermons.]

Charles Frederick Norman - Sermons, English - 1867 - 208 pages
...praise : In such society, yet still more dear, While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. The parent pair their secret homage pay, And proffer...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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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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 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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