 These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung The word we had...  Pacific Educational Journal - Page 251888Full view - About this book
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 pages
...well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. ; : "The ill-timed truth we might hare kept, — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?...faults no tenderness should ask, .... . The chastening stripe must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heavrn we... | |
 | 1883 - 804 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept,..."Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripe must cleanse them all >, But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we... | |
 | 1885 - 466 pages
...of a friend. 14 The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung I M The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how...chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our b^bj^ders -*>oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ;... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 136 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept...ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; jt Men crown the knave, and scourge the , tool | That did... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept...tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleause them all ; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1888 - 332 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung ?" It would be easy to extend this portrayal of the evils of bad temper, but it will be more profitable... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 224 pages
...willingly inflict upon an enemy, and may be a means of depression and of grief beyond your imaginings. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung?" There are marvelous possibilities in a word of kindliness, as there are marvelous possibilities in... | |
 | 1889 - 656 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning" hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. 'The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how «harp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung?... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept...sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung ? "Onr faults no tenderness should ask ; The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 pages
...Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept...not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rang ? * Our faults no tenderness should ask ; The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for... | |
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