 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 страница
...take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever....chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as, in one sense, the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 страница
...take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever....chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. § 25. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 страница
...take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever....chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. "Yet aa in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 страница
...lichens take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have done their parts for a time ; but these do service for...chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave." CHAPTER III. FRESH-WATER ALG.E. " Books in the running brooks." " And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 страница
...take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever....the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, com for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as, in one sense, the humblest, in another they are the... | |
 | 1861 - 636 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees 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... | |
 | 1861 - 634 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees 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... | |
 | 1861 - 588 страница
...done their parts for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flow. ITS 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... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1864 - 376 страница
...watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have done their parts for time, but these do service for ever ! Trees for the builder's yard, corn for the granary, moss for the grave!" As I drew near the fine old tiled dwelling of my friend,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 страница
...take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever....chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading,... | |
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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 headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the... 
