 | 1868 - 978 страници
...loot towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallowa, And the brooks of morning run ; " — for" What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweetly tender juice« Hare hardened into wood, " That to the world are children ; Through them it... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 страници
...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.... | |
 | 1872 - 784 страници
...truer, and purer because of children, and can echo the words which one who loves them has sung — " What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below." III. If, as we have seen, good books are such great blessings, it follows that children should strive... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 298 страници
...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...feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate, That reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children, And whisper in my ear What the birds and... | |
 | 1872 - 710 страници
...us If the children were no more Î We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, —...silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the О ye children I And whisper in my enr What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 страници
...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 car What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere.... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 страници
...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 ! For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of bur books, When compared with your... | |
 | William Reid - 1872 - 246 страници
...us, I f 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...Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunk below." No wonder, then, if amid the din of daily toil, and even the allurements of public life,... | |
 | 1872 - 778 страници
...truer, and purer because of children, and can echo the words which one who loves them has sung— " What the leaves are to the forest, With light and...Have been hardened into wood,— That to the world arc children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 360 страници
...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.... | |
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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... 
