 | 1851 - 786 pages
...a little dunghter, And she was given to me To lead me gently onward To the Heavenly Father's knee. I know not how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair. And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed in her hair. She had been with us scarce a twelvemonth,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...sky The falcon Truth hangs poised for ever, And marks them with his vengeful eye. THE CHANGELING. I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To...how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair, For it was as wavy and golden, A»d as many changes took, As the shadows of sun-gilt ripples On the... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...simple and pathetic, and invested with a nameless grace and etherial fascination. "TUB CHANGELING. I bad a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead...force of nature, Might In some dim wise divine The depths of his Infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine. I know not how others saw her, But to... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...she was given to me 210 SOME AMERICAN POETS. To lead me gently onward To the Heavenly Father's knees. I know not how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair, And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed in her hair. She had been with us scarce a twelvemonth,... | |
 | 1918 - 798 pages
...Heavenly Father'* knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in sonfe dim wise divine The depth of hu infinite patience * . To this wayward soul of mine. I know not how others saw her, But to ne the was wholly fair, And the light of the heaven site came from Still lingered and gleamed in her... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...translators of poetry, might contrive a charming volume of such lyrics on childhood. THE CHANGELING. " I had a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently onward To the Heavenly Father's knee. I know not how others ?aw her, But to me she was wholly fair,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...cripple, and then act towards others as you would have others act towards yon. YITTA. THE CHANGELING. I had a little daughter, And she was given to me, To lead me gently onward To the Heavenly Father's knee. I know not how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair,... | |
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THE CHANGELING. I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine. I... 
