 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fullness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er* And my wife sobbed aloud in her fullness of heart. " Stay, stay with... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. " Stay, stay with... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 322 pages
...knew the sweet strains that the corn-reapers eung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I sTvore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kissed me a thuusand times o'er, And fain was the war-broken soldier to stay; But sorrow return'd with... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 196 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; Afy little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...own mountain goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the com reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part. My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. " Stay, stay with... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strains that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. " Stay, stay with... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...bleating aloft, .And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. 198 HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part, My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart "Stay, stay with... | |
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I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. 
