 | American poetry - 1870 - 252 pages
...astray, Implore his counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door : Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convey her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...Implore His counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright ! ' 55 But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neibor lad came o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 774 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might ; They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright ! " But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door. Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neibor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...vain that sought the Lord aright 1" 1 By-and-By. * Cautions. » News. « Makes. "Diligent. 'Dally. But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 344 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might ; They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright ! " 54 But, hark! a rap comes gently to the door. Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 472 pages
...astray. Implore His counsel an' assisting might ; They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!" But hark! a rap comes gently to the door. Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same. Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 504 pages
...astray, Implore His counsel an' assisting might; They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!" But hark! a rap comes gently to the door. Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...alway ! 5o An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night ! Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, vn. But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!" But, hark I a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neibor lad came o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright' M But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad came o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her name. The wily... | |
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But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek... 
