| Alfred Sturgeon - 1862 - 134 pages
...captain ... in ... boat, and ... calling to us through ... speaking trumpet. "Mother, oh, where ... that radiant shore, Shall we not seek it, and weep no more?" " ... it where the flower of the orange blows?" ... your brother quite well ? The chief town in the... | |
| Textbooks, English - 1863 - 316 pages
...was the account which these poor people gave to the magistrate of their preservation. LESSON LXXXIV. I hear thee speak of the better land, Thou call'st...Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-fliesglance through the myrtle boughs? Not there, not there, my child ! Is it where the feathery... | |
| Hymnals - Hymns, English - 1863 - 168 pages
...BETTER LAND.— p. M. I hear thee speak of a better land, Thou call'st its children a happy band ; Mother, oh ! where is that radiant shore ? Shall we...the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance thro' the myrtle boughs ? Not there ; not there — my child. Is it where the feathery palm trees... | |
| Hymns, English - 1867 - 726 pages
...! THE BETTER LAND. " I HEAR thee speak of the better land ; Thou call'st its children a happy band. Mother, oh where is that radiant shore? Shall we not...the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs ? " "Not there, not there, my child." " Is it where the feathery palm-trees... | |
| Charles Rogers - 1867 - 754 pages
...! THE BETTER LAND. " I HEAR thee speak of the better land ; Thou call'st its children a happy band. Mother, oh where is that radiant shore ? Shall we...the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs ! " " Not there, not there, my child." " Is it where the feathery palm-trees... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Apostles - 1867 - 548 pages
...— HEBREWS xi. 18. I HEAR thee speak of the better land, Thou call'st its children a happy band ; Mother ! Oh where is that radiant shore, — Shall...the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs? " Not there, not there, my child." Is it where the feathery palm trees... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...LAND. " I HBAB thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! O, where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it,...more ? Is it where the flower of the orange blows, 5 And the fire-flies glance through the myrtle boughs ?" — "Not there, not there, my child ! " "... | |
| Nicolas Wanostrocht - 1867 - 350 pages
...11EMANS. " I HEAB thee speak of the better land ; Thou call'st its children a happy band : Mother, 0 ! where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more ? Is it where the flower of the oranges blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle-boughs?" — " Not there, not there, my... | |
| Hymns, English - 1867 - 446 pages
...call'st its children a happy band; Mother, oh, where is that distant shore? Shall we not seek it, sigh no more ? Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance in the myrtle boughs ? Not there, not there, my child; Not there, not there, my child. 2 Is it... | |
| Who - Consolation - 1867 - 202 pages
...DEATH. 169 " I hear thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! 0 where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more? Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy ; Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy : Dreams cannot picture... | |
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