 The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!" The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; , They could not see the bitter...  Poems - Page 62by Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
..." The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before ; They could not see his bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed...pleading voice arose, " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool I " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool The rod must heal the... | |
 | R. C. H. Morison - 1901 - 520 pages
...bells, And stood the mocking court before : They could not see the bitter smile Behind the patient grin he wore. He bowed his head, and bent his knee...voice arose : ' O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! '• No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | George Riddle - 1902 - 648 pages
...PRAYER. Copyright, by'-Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Reprinted with permission. By EDWARD ROWLAND SILL. THE royal feast was done; the king Sought some new sport...pleading voice arose: "O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! "No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1902 - 370 pages
...for above it Rest the deep, beautiful heavens, Blue, and beyond, and forever. THE FOOL'S PiRATER THE royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport...monarch's silken stool ; His pleading voice arose : " 0 Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1902 - 370 pages
...mocking court before; They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed bis head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken...voice arose: " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the... | |
 | Elia Wilkinson Peattie - 1903 - 252 pages
...of California. His poems were privately printed under the title "The Hermitage and Other Poems." The royal feast was done; the king Sought some new sport...pleading voice arose: "O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! "No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1904 - 312 pages
..."Waved their bright wings, and whisper'd — "Yes, IN HEAVEN ! " CHAKLES MACKAY. THE FOOL'S PRAYER. THE royal feast was done ; the king Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...why ? because the motley fool so wise a sermon made. GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY. THE FOOL'S PRAYER. THE royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool : The rod must heal... | |
 | Charles Peters - 1904 - 360 pages
...gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness THE FOOL'S PRAYER BY EDWARD ROWLAND SILL THE royal feast was done ; the king Sought some new sport...pleading voice arose : ' O Lord Be merciful to me, a fool ! ' No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
..." The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before ' They could not see his bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed...pleading voice arose, " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool The rod must heal the... | |
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