 His presence is like sunshine sent to gladden home and hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly grace as now for earthly love. And...  Supplement to the Courant - Seite 731855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 Seiten
...hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly...his age I cannot tell, For they reckon not by years or months wliere he is gone to dwell. To us, for fourteen anxious months, his infant smiles were given,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 Seiten
...hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly grace as now for earthly love; And it beside his grave, the tears our aching eyes must dim, God comfort us for all the love which we shall... | |
 | John McNeill - 1891 - 420 Seiten
...that they are safe, either doing well out in the great world, or doing better than well up yonder. " I have a son, a third sweet son, His age I cannot tell ; For they reckon not by years or months Where he has gone to dwell. I cannot tell what form is his, What looks he weave th now, Nor... | |
 | Samuel Norvell Lapsley - 1893 - 294 Seiten
...McNeill's sermons, I found the following, which I venture to think finds a deep response in your soul : ' I have a son, a third sweet son, His age I cannot tell, For they reckon not by years or months "Where he has gone to dwell. I cannot tell what form is his, What looks he weareth now, Nor... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 Seiten
...hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove AS sweet a home for heavenly...beside his grave, the tears our aching eyes must dim, Grod comfort us for all the love which we shall lose in him ! Z have a son, a third sweet son ! his... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 Seiten
...griefs, And sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may pjove ; As sweet a home for heavenly grace As now for earthly...His age I cannot tell ; For they reckon not by years or months Where he is gone to dwell. To us, for fourteen anxious months, His infant smiles were given... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 Seiten
...hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all pur mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly...now for earthly love! And if, beside, his grave, the te:irs our aching eyes must dim, ;eyes .all lo I have a son, a third sweet son ; his ago I cannot tell,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 Seiten
...all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart m.ij prove As sweet a home for heavenly grace as now for earthly love; THE THREE SONS. 14] And if beside his grave, the tears our aching eyes must dim, God comfort us for... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 832 Seiten
...earth, To comfort us in all our griefs, And sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years. God grant his heart may prove. As sweet a home for heavenly...comfort us for all the love Which we shall lose in him. III. I have a son, a third sweet son. His age I cannot tell, For they reckon not by years and months.... | |
 | Samuel F. Pickering - 2005 - 232 Seiten
...first a "grave and wise" five-year-old and the second "a simple child of three," playfellow "to all." "I have a son, a third sweet son; his age I cannot tell," Moultrie began the final stanza. "For they reckon not by years and months where he is gone to dwell.... | |
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