 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the 35 soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet, as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored, of the earth-children. Unfading... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 472 pages
...other service is 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...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth children, unfading... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 504 pages
...other service is 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...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth children, unfading... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 774 pages
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading, as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 796 pages
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading, as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - City planning - 1905 - 1266 pages
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. APPENDIX I. TO CHAPTER V. NOTES ON EDUCATION AT HOME AND ABROAD. To study the important question of... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 528 pages
...for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth children, unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet, as"in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored, of the earth-children. Unfading as motion5 less, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 494 pages
...Trees for the builder's yard, overs for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the rave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most ionored of the earth children, unfading as motionless, the worm ets them not and the Autumn wastes... | |
 | 1898 - 980 pages
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave." And as to the clouds— but the reader who •wants to know what marvellous things can be said of them... | |
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When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the giftbearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the... 
