 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...price for what Earth gives us." How often is it true in our own experience that " Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay ; Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking." Need it be wondered at, then, if at times there comes the feeling of disappointment,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking : 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in. At the devil's booth are all things sold ; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away ; 'Tis only God may be had for the asking... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 68 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking: 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1867 - 500 pages
...We bargain for the graves we He in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking.... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...for the the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coste its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul i tasking : 'Tie heaven alone that is given away, 'Tie only God may be had fur the axking,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking : 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay. Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had... | |
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce... 
