 Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into...  Friends' Quarterly Examiner - Page 2571875Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our coutrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...wood. — That to the world are children ; Through thern it feels their glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...reaches the trunks below. Come to me, 0 ye children 1 And whimper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...us If the children were no more ? \Ve should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. 106 Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the hirds and the winds are singing In your... | |
 | Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to tho forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet...climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O yc children ! And whisper in my car WhaUhe birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...us If the children were no more P We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
 | Helen Lester (fict.name.) - 1859 - 288 pages
...SHOBIRL, PRINTER, 37. DEAN STRUT, Soiio, \\. HELEN LESTER, CHAPTER I. " What the leaves are to the fruit, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender...the glow Of a brighter and .'sunnier climate Than reaches'the trunks below." LONGFELLOW. In a long, low, old-fashioned house, called the Grange, about... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood — 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier... | |
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