SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. Bentley's Miscellany - Page 559edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
| John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe. 66. Small service is true service, while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, spurn not one; The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...brother kind ! WALLER. Friendship has a power To soothe affliction in her darkest hour. H. KIRKE WHITE. Small service is true service while it lasts; Of friends,...The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the ling'ring dewdrop from the sun. WORDSWORTH. They drop apace ; by nature some decay ; And some the blasts... | |
| George Braithwaite - 1875 - 128 pages
...flowers have been A generation. * LINES WRITTEN IN A CHILD'S ALBUM. Small friendship is true friendship while it lasts, Of friends, however humble, scorn...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWORTH. August, 185O. M A MORNING WALK. It was the first of May: and Sun, as bright As ever shone... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Lady Fleming. Small service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. To a Child. Written in her Album. Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel No Self-reproach. The Old... | |
| Catholic sermons - 1875 - 188 pages
...abilities every day, if our hearts are set on service. None of us is too weak to accomplish some good. " The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." Nor need we step out of our domestic or social position to be effective agents in the Lord's vineyard.... | |
| William M'Dowall - Cemeteries - 1876 - 472 pages
...does dutiful servitude on the one hand and kindly considerateness on the other. The poet warns us " Of friends however humble scorn not one ; The daisy...casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun." And in this case, the service appreciated during life is grateI* fully recognised after death, upon... | |
| 1876 - 732 pages
...but to the grave. GRAY. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however hum'hle, scorn not one : . The daisy, by the shadow that it...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. The gloomiest day hath gleams of light ; The darkest wave hath white foam near it ; And twinkles through... | |
| Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1876 - 1140 pages
...necessity to shield the honeyed nectaries from ÍOÓ 207 the rains and dews. Wordsworth tells us that '•The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop irom the sun.'1 Bit a knowledge of the true structure of this modest little flower reveals to us poetry... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1877 - 306 pages
...the works of creation. The whole system of God's government is a system of order.' SR WASHING UP. ' Small service is true service, while it lasts. Of...casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.' As the health of the body may be injured, and the most intense suffering produced, by one of the smallest... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...all-shunn'd poverty, Walks, like contempt, alone. — Shakespeare. 1391. FRIENDS : must be honoured. Then obstinate self-will confirms him so. Tell him he wanders ; that his Wordsworth. 1392. FRIENDS. Parting of FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There... | |
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