 How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy to the weak, and reverence For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, Or Death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The selfsame light, although averted hence,...  Illinois Teacher: Devoted to Education, Science and Free Schools - Page 261864Full view - About this book
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...blackest of them all, the crow, rendered good service by devouring beetles, slugs, and snailp, adding — "How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " But the farmers of course would not listen, and the birds were slain. " The summer came, and all... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. How can I teach your children gentleness And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach?" With this he closed; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves; The farmers... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed; and through the audience went A murmur like the rustle of dead leaves; The... | |
 | 1882 - 578 pages
...your manat-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...actions, and your speech, You contradict the very tilings I teach?" With this he closed; and through the audience went A murmur like the rustle of dead... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...your man-at-amis, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. How can I teach your children gentleness And mercy...Or Death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The self -same light, although averted hence, When, by your laws, your actions, and your speech, You contradict... | |
 | 1883 - 270 pages
...his coat-of-mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. THE CLAIMS OF GENTLENESS AND REVERENCE. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...very things I teach ? " The birds were doomed ; and, as the record shows, A bounty offered for the heads of crows. THE KESUI/T OP THEIR DESTRUCTION. Devoured... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 748 pages
...your man-atarms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and 'through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And merey to the weak, and reverence For Life, which, in its...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 738 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...light, although averted hence, When by your laws, your actipns, and your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and through... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...your man-atarms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, An. 1 crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...less The self-same light, although averted hence, \Vhen by your laws, your actions, and your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With... | |
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