 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.  The history of Mary Grove - Halaman 43oleh Julia Addison - 1854Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Fanny Lonsdale - 1869 - 202 halaman
...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,...learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind." IT was a happy day for Bertha when the schoolroom of Oakdale Hall resounded again with the echo of... | |
 | Charles Bullock - 1869 - 280 halaman
...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...mind at random 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... | |
 | Edward Jacob Boyce - 1869 - 122 halaman
...intelligence. Facts must be taught long prior to the power of understanding their value or significance. " Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish...mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. And if some tones be false or low, What are all prayers beneath But cries of babes, that cannot know... | |
 | Charles Bullock - 1869 - 254 halaman
...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...mind at random 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... | |
 | 1869 - 450 halaman
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1870 - 586 halaman
...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...reach the strain. Dim or unheard the words may fall, But yet the heaven-taught mind May hear the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind." — Christian... | |
 | 1870 - 720 halaman
...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 - 366 halaman
...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...learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind. Was not our Lord a little child, Taught by degrees to pray ; By father dear and mother mild Instructed... | |
 | John Earle - 1871 - 644 halaman
...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...learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind.' The general effect of such observations is towards this : — That the sentient and emotional parts... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1871 - 388 halaman
...sny not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain, That tlje young mind at random flouts, And cannot reach the strain. ' Dim or unheard, the...learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind.' I pen down, as well as I can from memory, the following tonchii'g anecdote of one of those Sunday-school... | |
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