 Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its...  Unity Pulpit - Pàgina 171883Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pàgines
...respects " Earth has its price for what Earth gives us." How often is it true in our own experience that " Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay ; Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking." Need it be wondered at, then, if at times there comes the feeling... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...we pay. Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: "IV- heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. No price is set on the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pàgines
...to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking : 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 274 pàgines
...die in, / The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; I At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; if} For a cap and bells our lives we pay, i * Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking : I . 'T... | |
 | 1911 - 322 pàgines
...cringe and plot, We Sinai's clinch and know it not." "For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles wc buy with a whole soul's tasking. 'Tis Heaven alone...given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking." IS DENSITY EQUIVALENT TO STUPIDITY? One day a teacher asked her class to write an essay on London about... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pàgines
...our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on the... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pàgines
...to die in ; The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives ug ; We bargain for the graves we lie in. At the devil's booth are all things sold ; Each ounce...; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away ; 'Tis only God may be had... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pàgines
...our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold -, 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 68 pàgines
...corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking: 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pàgines
...to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking : "Pis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on... | |
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