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. Catechetical hints and helps - الصفحة 3بواسطة Edward Jacob Boyce - 1869عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Charles Bullock - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...devote our youth to God . Watts . . 118 Within the churchyard, side by side CPAlexander . 166 4 , p. j Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...floats, And cannot reach the strain : And if some notes be false and low, What are all prayers beneath, But cries of babes that cannot tell Half the... | |
| Charles Bullock - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...DAT/irupp . 139 . 172 . 155 . 98 . 103 128 J. King J. Taylor Watts CF Alexander . . 99 . 117 . 118 . 166 Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...floats, And cannot reach the strain : And if some notes be false and low, What are all prayers beneath, But cries of babes that cannot tell Half the... | |
| 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...and then God will shower righteousness. We commit the seed to the ground, He gives the increase. " О say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. " Loved not the Lord of heaven to talk With children in His sight ? To meet them in His daily walk,... | |
| Fanny Lonsdale - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...was fast rolling them away. CHAPTER VIII. ' ' Oh ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To children's 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... | |
| Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...highest Christian state and experience. So the author of the " Christian Year" writes of them : " Oil, say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...mind at random floats And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard the words may fall, But yet the heaven-taught mind May hear the sacred air, and all... | |
| 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...the shepherd, and so was every evening afterwards led within the safe shelter of the fold. ' Ob ! sny not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain, That the young mind nt random floats, And cannot reach the strain. * Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught... | |
| Gathered grain - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...Matt, xviii. 2. He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom. Isaiah xl. 1 1. Oh ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...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... | |
| John Earle - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...ground that, if the sense is beyond them, there is a certain musical path of communication : ' Oh I say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...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... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...poet, as he looks on children ranged to receive their first lessons in religion, bursts forth— ' Oh ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...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... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...poet, as he looks on children ranged to receive their first lessons in religion, bursts forth — " 0 ! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears...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... | |
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