 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant to tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods,...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods,...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 páginas
...are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichens take up their watch by the headstone. The...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have done their parts for a time ; but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | 1861 - 588 páginas
...so are they its last gift to us. When all other service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods,...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flow. ITS for the bride's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods,...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | 1861 - 636 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods,...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1864 - 376 páginas
...its last gift to us. When all farther service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichens take up their watch by the headstone. The...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have done their parts for time, but these do service for ever ! Trees for the builder's yard, corn for the granary,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 páginas
...last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's... | |
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And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone. 
