 Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die, in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its...  Messiah Pulpit - Page 111896Full view - About this book
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1892 - 474 pages
...and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, 25 Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, 9. In allusion to Wordsworth's " Heaven lies about us in our infancy," in his ode, Intimations of Immortality... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1893 - 236 pages
...an earnest cry to him, they would receive eternal possessions, imperishable crowns and treasures. " Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking; Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking." (gate of 3Ltfe. THERE is a little poem which describes death... | |
 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - 1894 - 232 pages
...that cringe and plot We Sinais climb, and know it not. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us : At the devil's booth are all things sold: Each ounce...soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God can be had for the asking. No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...K»c,h ounce o( dross costs its ounce o( gold ; ' For a cap and hells our llvee we pay, Babbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that Is given away Tis only God may be had (or the asking." To the Editor of THE HESPERIAN: One would think that the spirit... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1895 - 616 pages
...the grandest things in the world are free, as Lowell sings in the opening of " Sir Launfal " : — " At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...soul's tasking: Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking ; No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by... | |
 | Eli Lemon Sheldon - 1895 - 336 pages
...a whole soul's tasking; 'Tis Heaven alone that is given away, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...ounce of gold; for a cap and bells our lives we pay, "Via only God may be had for the asking; No price is set on the lavish summer, Time may be had by the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 574 pages
...to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrive.4 us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : No price is set... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1895 - 380 pages
...treasures, the divine and imperishable gifts, which they might have with half the toil and care. " Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking." We ought not to spend our life in picking up things which... | |
 | 1894 - 680 pages
...differentiates us from the past, and is becoming more and more predominant in all the churches. — Tin' New Re" Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking." SIR WILLIAM DAWSON ON THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTH AND MAN'S... | |
 | 1896 - 678 pages
...only the worse for him. A person who is very ill, and reaches the point where he ceases to suffer, the doctor knows perfectly well is reaching a very hopeless...soul's tasking; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking; No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the... | |
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