 | Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis - 1856 - 650 pages
...threshhold of the matter, borrow a homily for them from that pure and eloquent preacher, Mary Howitt : " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. " Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth f To minister delight to man,... | |
 | Eliza B. Davis - 1856 - 300 pages
...her future, lest she should disturb the tranquillity of this cherished daughter. 12 CHAPTER XXII. " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. " Our outward life required them not: Then wherefore... | |
 | H. J. STURGE - 1857 - 210 pages
...To me above the rest? Then let me love Thee more than they, And try to serve Thee best. DR. WATTS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours, For medicine, luxury, and food, And yet have... | |
 | 1857 - 300 pages
...succeeds, I '11 scatter here among the seeds All the small crumbs I see. MISS LAMB. THE USE OF FLOWEKS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...tree, and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 pages
...counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the spider and the fly. THE USE OF FLOWERS. G-OD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, — The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, — Without a flower at all. Then, wherefore, wherefore were they made,... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pages
...thought o'er me, Feeling myself with nature wed, — A holy mystery, — THE USE OP FLOWERS. MARY HOWITT. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 220 pages
...be had from them and from oth'er flowers, if we will learn to be fond of them and stud'y them. 8. " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, For lux'u-ry, med'i-cine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. 9. "... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 248 pages
...leave§ light 2 gr&ss rgd dark «g'ly joy plSnts blue white dew peace shine§ ygl'low rofind V.-TEE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth bring...tree, and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, arid toil, And yet... | |
 | Adam Stein - 1858 - 316 pages
...prettily she sings. Harry said, " I would rather hear aunt Susan sing than any blackbird I ever heard." " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all. " Then, wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed in rainbow light ? All fashion'd with supremest... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 134 pages
...this world. wheat. PROSE LESSONS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN RHYME. THE USE OF FLOWERS. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed in rain-bow... | |
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God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. 
