 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad that he is gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong. Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...limb, For luxury ari3 sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye 'Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...nonef for him, For a si k fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her phantom miseries. And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, " And I am glad that he has lived thus long; Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...For luxury and sloth had nourished nonef for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long ; And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die."... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. 7. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long ; And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die."... | |
 | Charles Wallace - 1834 - 32 pages
...twilight hues when the bright sun is set ? Let us be glad that he bas lived thus long ; And glad that be has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak band grew tremulous, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long. And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age. it was bis time to die."... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...the holy rest that waits a life well spent. * * * * * And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.... | |
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And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his... 
