 | 1813 - 410 pages
...USE OF FLOWERS. MARY HOWITT. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | 1837 - 396 pages
...; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. i The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus-flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 846 pages
...for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without 11 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. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus... | |
 | 1839 - 226 pages
...Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all; We might have hail enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers. n. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus-flower, To make... | |
 | William Baxter - 1837 - 342 pages
...for great and small; The Oak-tree, and the Cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. lie might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the Lotus-flower... | |
 | William Baxter - 1837 - 340 pages
...toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, ]S'or doth it need the Lotus-flower To make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, .And the herb that keepeth lite in man Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...Marien Lee ! THE USE OF FLOWERS. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain ; The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man, Might yet have drnuk them... | |
 | 1838 - 444 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. The clouds might give abundant rain, The mighty dew might fall; And the herb that... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1839 - 222 pages
...creatures indeed. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain ; The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man, Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | M. S. - 1839 - 194 pages
...might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough,...have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine ReqUjireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow. The clouds might... | |
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God might have bade the earth 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. 
