| Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 pages
...deems it not its own reward * Who, fur its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, 'Mir reaper's song among the sheaves. Vet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...deems it not its own reward? Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1851 - 142 pages
...the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done ! And ours the grateful service whence... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1878 - 650 pages
...of cattle, and bringing them to a profitable market, the right man must be found in the right place. Then we come back to our first statement, that the...on summer eves The reaper's song among the sheaves ; THE OLD AND THE NEW. 15 THE OLD AND THE NEW. [From an Address before the Union Society.] BY WASHINGTON... | |
| 1858 - 588 pages
...it not its own reward ? V. in-, for its trials, counts It less A cause of praise and thankfulness? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to bear, on summer crée, The reaper's song among tbe sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task Is wrought In... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 350 pages
...bare: Who bestows himself, with his alms feeds three,— Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...is wrought, In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in dne, And whatsoe'er is willed is done." LOWELL. WHITTIEB. I HAVE come to entertain... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...deems it not its own reward '{ Who, for its trials, counts it less A cause of praise and thankfulness ? It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one,... | |
| 1861 - 356 pages
...lonely place is spread; It live*, it lives; the spring is nigh, And soon its life shall testify. BARTON. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one,... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 358 pages
...bestows himself, with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." LOWILL. " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened...on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Tet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 356 pages
...bestows himself, with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." LOWELL. " It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear on summer eves, Tho reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet, when our duty's task is wrought, In unison with God's great... | |
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