twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe ; But sure with patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy, Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy. Book of lessons for the use of schools - Page 136by Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836Full view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...you see, You say the sun shines bright ; I feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? My day or night myself I make Whene'er I sleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake With me 't were always day. "With, heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...you see; You say the sun shines bright ; 1 feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? n in mind I did consent To follow thus ever keep awake, With me 'twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You moum my hapless woe ;... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...you see ; You say the sun shines bright ; I feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? My day or night myself I make Whene'er I sleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake With me 'twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe ;... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...Or1 make it day or night ? My day or night myself I make Whene'er I sleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake, With me 'twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless2 woe ; But sure with patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. Then let not what I cannot... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
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| H.J. Infield - 1879 - 136 pages
...seo ; You say the sun shines bright ; I feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? 3. My day or night myself I make Whene'er I sleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake With me 'twere always day. 4. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe... | |
| Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...you see, You say the sun shines bright ; 1 feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? My day or night myself I make Whene'er I sleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake With me 'twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe ;... | |
| Charles Peter Mason - 1879 - 108 pages
...[things] of hurtful [things we can create, when] prosperous [things] of adverse [things] we can create. My day or night myself I make, whene'er I sleep or play. He yields neither t to force nor t to persuasion. I have not decided whether I will go or not. He allowed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...Or make it day or night ? My day or night myself I make, Whene'er Asleep or play ; And could I ever keep awake, With me 'twere always day. With heavy...mourn my hapless woe ; But, sure, with patience I can boar A loss I ne'er can know. Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy ; Wliile thus... | |
| New national reading books - 1880 - 140 pages
...see, You say the sun shines bright — I feel him warm, but how can he Or make it day or night ? 3. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless...with patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. 4. Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy, While thus I sing I am a king, Although... | |
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