 | Richard Green Parker - Readers and speakers - 1865 - 300 pages
...food. 11. "Ay, though the children weep all day, and wife downdrooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread." 12. It went. Oh! parting has a pang the hardest heart to wring ; But the tender soul of a little child... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...by one, their household things were sold to buy them bread. That father, with a downcast eye, npon his threshold stood, Gaunt poverty each pleasant thought...day, and with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1872 - 200 pages
...household things %t>" Were sold to buy them bread. -» -;' , . That father, with a downcast eye, : 1" ' Upon his threshold* stood ; ;;'; . Gaunt* poverty...day, And with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, The hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring Must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 200 pages
...meek creature, from their hands, And nestled to their knee ; That had a place within their hearts — One of the family. But want, even as an armed man,...day, And with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, The hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring Must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - Readers - 1894 - 296 pages
...downcast eye, upon his threshold stood, Gaunt poverty each pleasant thought had in his heart subdued ; XI. "Ay, though the children weep all day, and with downdrooping...which has a price to bring, must go, to buy us bread!" xn. It went — oh ! parting has a pang the hardest heart to wring, But the tender soul of a little... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1898 - 200 pages
...creature, from their hands, And nestled* to their knee ; ' That had a place within their hearts — One of the family. But want, even as an armed man,...day, And with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, The hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring Must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 414 pages
...hearts, one of the family. But want, even as an armed man, came down upon their shed, The father labored all day long that his children might be fed, And,...day, and with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...pleasant thought h;id in his heart subdued. " What is the creature's life to us ? " said he : " 't will buy us food. "Ay, though the children weep all day, and with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread."... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...ate, meek creature, from their hands, and nestled to their knee; That had a place within their hearts, one of the family. But want, even as an armed man,...day, and with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread."... | |
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What is the creature's life to us?" said he: "'twill buy us food. "Ay, though the children weep all day, and with down-drooping head Each does his small task mournfully, the hungry must be fed ; And that which has a price to bring must go to buy us bread."... 
