| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 страници
...replied, ' If you won't It be tn offence to make /.<:/>.- do duty as a verb active) u the following :— " Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; 'ilie opening bud to Heaven convey'd, And bade it blossom there." play with me, yon might as well... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...doth make it less ? But infamy, time never can suppress. Drayton, Rosamund. INFANCY— e« Childhood. Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to heav'n convey'd, And bade it blossom there. Coleridge. I sported in my tender... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 714 страници
...were, Thy Image may not banished be — Still, Mary ! still I sigh for thee. June, 1794. EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care, The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there, VOL. vn. C ON IMITATION ALL are not... | |
| 1883 - 658 страници
...is nothing in the mind of the infant to prevent his being moulded in the form of heaven, because " 'Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care, The opening bud to heaven removed, And bade it blossom there. " The bud does not remain a bud : it... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 страници
...Singing of Mount Abora. ibid. For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. Kulla Khan. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Epitaph on an Infant. The grand old... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 страници
...small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Sam/. Taylor Coleridge. EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to heaven convey'd, And bade it blossom there. Saml. Taylor Coleridge. LOVE. ALL... | |
| George John Stevenson - 1884 - 204 страници
...bereaved father consoled himself and his beloved partner with another stanza : — "ON THE DEATH OP AN INFANT. " Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care, The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there." That is the kind of resignation Christianity... | |
| Francis Haslewood - 1884 - 392 страници
...1833, aged 21 years. In of SYDNEY CHARLES SHARPE GODBOLD, born June 28, 1839, died November 25, 1845. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. " He lived beloved, and died lamented."... | |
| Francis Haslewood - 1884 - 394 страници
...1833, aged 21 years. In of SYDNEY CHARLES SHARPE GODBOLD, born June 28, 1839, died November 25, 1845. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death, came with friendly care ; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. " He lived beloved, and died lamented."... | |
| Edward Payson Hammond - 1885 - 564 страници
...contagious disease, and Mr. Ross spoke touchingly of how this child witnessed for Jesus while dying. ' Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came, with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there." " Many a little heart seemed touched... | |
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