 | 1821 - 788 pàgines
...peace, — as safely kept As when on earth we smil'd or wept. What is our duty here ? to tend Krom good to better, thence to best : Grateful to drink...our bed of rest : To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrauce as we go. And so to live that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
 | 206 pàgines
...storehouse of tbe grave we fill , And sleep iu peace, as safely kept As when on earth we smiled or wept. " What is our duty here? to tend from good to better — thence to best ; Grateful to drink lifeS cW^-then bend Unmurmuring to our bed of rest; To pluck the (lowers that round us blow, Scattering... | |
 | John Bowring - 1823 - 286 pàgines
...fill ; And sleep in peace, as safely kept As when on earth we smiled or wept. What is our duty here 1 to tend From good to better — thence to best ; Grateful...bed of rest ; :| To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. And so to live, that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
 | John Bowring - 1824 - 276 pàgines
...storehouse of the grave we fill ; And sleep in peace, as safely kept As when on earth we smiled or wept. What is our duty here ? — To tend From good to better...our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. And so to live, that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
 | 1828 - 398 pàgines
...storehouse of the grave we fill ; And sleep in peace as safely kept As when on earth we smiled or wept. What is our duty here?— To tend From good to better...our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. And so to live, that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
 | 1829 - 466 pàgines
...storehouse of the grave we fill ; And sleep in peace, as safely kept As when on earth we smiled or wept. What is our duty here ? to tend From good to better — thence to best ; Grateful to drink life's cap— then bend. Unmurmuring, to our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pàgines
...the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man ! WATTS. WHAT is our duty here ? To tend From good to better...our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering our fragrance as we go. And so to live, that when the sun Of our existence sinks in... | |
 | 1831 - 442 pàgines
...store-house of the grave we fill. And sleep in peace — as safely kept As when on earth we smil'd or wept. What is our duty here? to tend From good to better,...our bed of rest; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. 342 And so to live that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
 | 1833 - 292 pàgines
...storehouse of the grave we fill ; And sleep in peace, as safely kept As whcu on earth we Biniled or wept. What is our duty here ?— To tend From good to better — thence to best : Grateful to driuk life's cup,— then bend, Unmurmuring', to our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round... | |
 | 1745 - 522 pàgines
...shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing !" " What is our duty here ? to tend From good to better...our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. And so to live, that when the sun Of our existence sinks... | |
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What is our duty here?— To tend From good to better — thence to best : Grateful to drink life's cup,— then bend Unmurmuring to our bed of rest ; To pluck the flowers that round us blow, Scattering their fragrance as we go. 
