 Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind.  Alone in the world - Seite 187von Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Keble - 1827 - 394 Seiten
...Thine own adopting Father love, That like thine earliest dew Thy dying sweets may prove. CATECHISM. OH say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | John Keble - 1827 - 216 Seiten
...own adopting Father love, That like thine earliest dew Thy dying sweets may prove. XCVII. CATECHISM. OH say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | 1834 - 410 Seiten
...Thine own adopting Father love, That like thine earliest dew Thy dying sweets may prove. CATECHISM. Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | John Keble - 1837 - 442 Seiten
...Thine own adopting Father love, That like thine earliest dew Thy dying sweets may prove. CATECHISM. OH ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | William Gresley - 1838 - 384 Seiten
...truth without giving cause for offence. CHAPTER XX. THE CHURCHMAN'S OPINION ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. " Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain; That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. " Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | J. G. F - 1839 - 430 Seiten
...see, Thus, thus their anxious cares repaid, My Agatha, in thee. Bishop Mant. THE CHURCH CATECHISM. " Oh ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain." The Christian Year, On the Catechism, MANY may learn it (the Catechism), from whose minds it may quickly... | |
 | 1840 - 468 Seiten
...children " say " their Catechism in a country Church. I can enter into the words of Keble : — " O say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...; That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain.'' But let us have what follows too : — " Loved not the Lord of Heaven to talk With... | |
 | 1841 - 686 Seiten
...immediate action, in which he foresaw much difficulty and danger. (To be continued.) 159 160 CATECHISM. OH say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or nnheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mini May learn the... | |
 | Lewis Pintard Bayard - 1841 - 286 Seiten
...recognize its most sacred obligation, and endeavor to discharge it in the spirit of its divine author. 0 say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...vain, That the young mind at random floats And cannot "reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 Seiten
...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. ffiatctfjfem. O SAY not, dream not, heav'nly notes To childish ears are vain ; That the young mind at random floats, Dim or unheard the words may fall, And yet the heav'n-taught mind May learn the sacred air, and all... | |
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