 | Illinois State Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1885 - 502 pages
...bring forth Enough for great and small. The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all; We might have had enough, enough, For every want of ours....luxury., medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers. "Then wherefore, wherefore, were they made, All dyed in the rainbow light, All fashjoned in the supremest... | |
 | Lewis Hubbard Reid - 1885 - 168 pages
...great and small, — The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. " He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours, — For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. " Our outward life requires them not, — Then wherefore have they birth ? To minister... | |
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885 - 244 pages
...for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, • Without a flower at all; He might have made enough — enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. Mary Howitt. God made the flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer man's careful mood,... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1887 - 270 pages
...at all. The ore within the mountain mine requireth none to grow; Nor doth it need the lotus flower to make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant...herb that keepeth life in man might yet have drunk Our outward life requires them not: then wherefore had they birth ? To minister delight to man,—to... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough, For every want of ours,...For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers.—Mary Howitt. 12. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, Of right choice food are his meals,... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1887 - 276 pages
...earth bring forth enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, without a flower at all. The ore within the mountain mine requireth none to grow; Nor doth it need the lotus flower to make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, the nightly dews might fall,... | |
 | Home economics - 1888 - 364 pages
...Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all ; He might have made enough — enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have made no flowers.— Mary Ifmoitt. Original in Goon HOUSEKEEPING. SOME VEGETABLES. THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY... | |
 | New Brunswick. Board of Education - Education - 1889 - 1004 pages
...forth Euough for great aiicl small, Like the oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours,...medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers." The same idea is suggested in a different way by some of our common violets. In several species the beautiful... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1889 - 376 pages
...bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree Without a flower at all ; We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours...luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours,...luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. —Mary Howitt. 31 130. As the ice upon the mountain, when the warm breath of the summer's sun breathes... | |
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The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them all. 
