 and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day; So God bless you all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May !  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 41854Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...again. The life of man is but a span. It flourishes like a flower, We are here to-da\, and gone toAnd we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the «ta:light, A little before it is day. So God bless you all, both great and And send you a joyful May.... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...may return again. The life of man is bat a span. It flourishes like a flower, We are her« to-dar, and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the «tars girt t light, A little before it is day, So God bless you all, both great and amali. And send... | |
 | Joseph Moyle Sherer - 1836 - 762 pages
...grave, he was trolling out, in a sort of hearty jig-jog cadence, a fragment of the Mayers' song:— " The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...both great and small, And send you a joyful May." This snatch of an ancient medley, so familiar to Martin Noble from his earliest years, called up the... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...beaten plaiu. And if a man be not too far gone, He may return again. The life of man ii but a span. And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the «tars giví i light, It flourishes like a flower, We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow. A little... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American fiction - 1845 - 452 pages
...well deserving such union, awaken the Queen's subjects earlier than they like on Christmas morning: " The moon shines bright And the stars give a light A little before 'tis day, And bid us awake and pray. Awake 1 awake ! good people all! Awake and you shall hear . .... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1845 - 276 pages
...well deserving such union, awaken the Queen's subjects earlier than they like on Christmas morning: " The moon shines bright And the stars give a light A little before 'tis day, And bid us awake and pray. Awake ! awake ! good people all! Awake and you shall hear . .... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American fiction - 1845 - 260 pages
...well deserving such union, awaken the Queen's subjects earlier than they like on Christmas morning: " The moon shines bright And the stars give a light A little before 'tis day, And bid us awake and pray. Awake ! awake ! good people all! Awake and you shall hear . .... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 214 pages
...Carol;'' but I scarcely think it was composed later than the early part of the preceding century.] HE moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it was day, Our Lord, our God, he called on us, And bid us awake and pray. Our Lord, our God, he died... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 390 pages
...The life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower ; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! w Old Song cxvi THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE ILL you hear a Spanish lady How she woo'd an English man... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. 7. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...day : So God bless you all, both great and small, THE EAVEK 1. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and... | |
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