 IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. We should fill the hours with the sweetest things, If we had but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way; We should love with a lifetime's love in an hour, If the hours were few; We should rest, not for...  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 71913Full view - About this book
 | Frances Elizabeth Willard, Minerva Brace Norton - 1894 - 368 pages
...obeys the two great commandments, love to God and love to man." BUT A DAY. We should fill all the hours with the sweetest things, If we had but a day : We should drink alone at the sweetest springs, On our upward way. We should waste no moments in vain regret, If the day were but... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1898 - 264 pages
...limited to one day ! In a haunting bit of verse occur the stanzas : — " We should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day ; We should only drink at the purest springs On our upward way; We should love with a lifetime's love in an hour,... | |
 | Fitchburg Historical Society - 1902 - 358 pages
...comfort, Which to-morrow O'erflow with healing balm. IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. We should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day ; We...dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do. We should guide our wayward or wearied wills By the clearest light; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills... | |
 | 1895 - 700 pages
...broods over us, shedding divine peace and benediction, and the curtain of night again falls, and we rest, " not for dreams, but for fresher power to be and to do." Added to these temporal blessings, so manifold and oft-repeated, is the capacity to hold and enjoy... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1888 - 838 pages
...England. IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. BY MARY LOWE DICKINSON. [From The Silver Cross.] WE should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day ; We should drink alone at the purest springs Tn our upward way ; We should love with a life-time's love in an hour If the hours were few ; We should... | |
 | Mary Lowe Dickinson, Myrta Lockett Avary - 1901 - 426 pages
...be alone than in mean company." — WH Davenport Adams. IF WE HAD BUT A DAV We should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day ; We should drink alone at the purest springs We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresh power In our upward way ; We should love with a lifetime's... | |
 | Fitchburg Historical Society - 1902 - 358 pages
...comfort, Which to-morrow O'erflow with healing balm. IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. We should fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day; We should...the hours were few ; We should rest, not for dreams, hut for fresher po.wer To be and to do. We should guide our wayward or wearied wills • By the clearest... | |
 | Amos Markham Kellogg - 1903 - 124 pages
...oppression, whereso'er it be— These are proudly free. If We Had But a Day. We should fill the hours with the sweetest things, If we had but a day; We...should love with a life-time's love in an hour, If our hours were few! We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresher powei To be and to do. We should... | |
 | 1904 - 1054 pages
...GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS. IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. WE should fill the hours with the sweetest things, I f we had but a day ; We should drink alone at the purest...dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do. We should guide our wayward or wearied wills By the clearest light; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills,... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...distance, And the good that I can do. GEORGE LINN.EUS BANKS. IF WE HAD BUT A DAY. WE should fill the hours with the sweetest things, If we had but a day ; We...drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way ; should love with a lifetime's love in an hour, If the hours were few ; should rest, not for dreams,... | |
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