 The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.  The Silence of Dean Maitland - Page 92by Maxwell Gray - 1887 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1863 - 622 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.' Again: 'I saw thee, lovely Inez, Descend along the shore, With bands of noble pentlemen, And banners... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEING AN APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE THE late inimitable Charles... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy ine still ! So wholly had her mind forgot All thoughts but SILENCE. THERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEING AIT APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MT OWN LIFE THE late inimitable Charles... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." , We shall make room for one more of the shorter poems. HYMN TO THE SUN. " Giver of glowing light !... | |
 | Ballads, American - 1846 - 166 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven, Than when I was a boy. THE WATCHMAN.— .By T. Moore. GOOD night, good night, my dearest, How fast the moments fly ; 'Tis... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEINO AIT APOLOGY- rOK NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT OR VT OW1C LIT! THE late inimitable Charles... | |
 | Timothy Dwight Sprague - American periodicals - 1847 - 408 pages
...their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy — To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy." • These and a thousand other snatches of poems and old songs, many of them much more facetious in... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pages
...their slender spirei Were close against the sky ; It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy !" Dickens, says — " I recollect when I was a very young child, having a fancy that the reflection... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...their slender spires Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy, To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy ! CANUTE THE GREAT. BERNARD BARTON. Attendants on his regal state, His servile courtiers stood, UPON... | |
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