 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Authors, English - 1898 - 336 pages
...moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave ? Sometimes I think that I'ma blossom blighted ; But...to bless For that which it is comfort to possess. No ! Those who most have seen me, since the hour When thou and I, in former happier days, Frank converse... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 630 pages
...moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave ? Sometimes I think that I'ma blossom blighted ; But...to bless For that which it is comfort to possess. No ! Those who most have seen me, since the hour When thou and I, in former happier days, Frank converse... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 588 pages
...moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave ? Sometimes I think that I'ma blossom blighted ; But...to bless For that which it is comfort to possess. No I Those who most have seen me, since the hour When thou and I, in former happier days, Frank converse... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 624 pages
...of moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave? Sometimes I think that I'ma blossom blighted ; But...poising to and fro, " To the better cause ; " that him 1 have to bless For that which it is comfort to possess. i8zo A Bereavement 567 No ! Those who most... | |
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... magnanimous self-sacrifice, And lofty inadvertency of fame, He felt there is a bliss in being wise, Quite independent of the wise man's name. Who now can say how many a soul may rise To a nobility of moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit... 