 ... glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 481by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1905 - 528 pages
...be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token; but of these the wild bird will make his nest and the wearied child his pillow. And as the...vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichens take up their watch for the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 494 pages
...gathered, like the flowers, for haplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make his nest nd the wearied child his pillow. And as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. Vhen all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses ad gray lichens take up their... | |
 | 1898 - 980 pages
...and newly turned soil ; and how pregnant with thought and emotion the ministry of moss and lichen : " And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last...is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - English language - 1911 - 630 pages
...honor the scarred disgrace of ruin — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them rest. And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last...gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. CHAPTER XVIII. FIGURES — A PICTURE STUDY. The first thing to be done in the study of figures is to... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1911 - 936 pages
...be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token; but of these the wild bird will make his nest and the wearied child his pillow. And as the...vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichens take up their watch for the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1900 - 1034 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichens take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1912 - 348 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...his pillow. And, as the earth's first mercy, so they aie its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, tlie soft mosses and... | |
 | Arminianism - 1866 - 1214 pages
...of silken change ; yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace ? They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. And as they are the earth's_/tM< mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace? They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. 1From Modern Painters. And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make his nest, and the wearied child his pillow. And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift... | |
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