 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
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - Carols - 1885 - 362 pages
...blessed may he be, Both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And Christ to eternity. /iDoon Sbtnes 3Brfgbt '"PHE [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. Awake, awake, good people all,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 482 pages
...beaten plain; And if a man be not too far gone, The heavenly gates are open wide, He may return again. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May! UNKNOWN. [Before 1649.] BEGONE DULL CARE I BEGONE dull care! Thou and 1 can never agree. Long while... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk songs, English - 1892 - 590 pages
...life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow, And are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the...both great and small, And send you a joyful May." L medley formed from this and previous examples is in use in :hamptonshire. At Polebrook, on the last... | |
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 616 pages
...life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow, And are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the...both great and small. And send you a joyful May." A medley formed from this and previous examples is in use in Northamptonshire. At Polebrook, on the... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower; We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow, And are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the...both great and small, And send you a joyful May." A medley formed from this and previous examples is in use in Northamptonshire. At.Polebrook, on the... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower ; We are here to day, and gone to-morrow, And are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright, and the...both great and small, And send you a joyful May." HUNTINGDONSHIRE. In the village of Glatton, May-day is observed by the election of Queen, of the May,... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 468 pages
...It flourishes like a flower. We are here to-day and gone to-morrow, The life of man is but a span, And we are dead in an hour. The moon shines bright...all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May! —Old Ballad. LINES ON A LATE HOSPICIOUS EWENT. By a Gentleman of the Foot-Guards. (Blue.) Prince... | |
 | Education - 1894 - 364 pages
...gates are open wide, Our paths are beaten plain ; And if a man be not too far gone He may return again. The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...all, both great and small, And send you a joyful May ! Decoration Day. By SUSIE M. BEST. All over our fair land to-day " We'll gather all earth's fairest... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - Carols - 1905 - 168 pages
...Carol" ; but I scarcely think it was composed later than the early part of the preceding century.] THE 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. Awake, awake, good people all,... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 462 pages
...night And almost all this day. And now, returned back again, We have brought you a branch of May. " The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,...both great and small, And send you a joyful May." Sarah K. Bolton. I GO A-MAYING May Day can be as commonplace a date as any other of the series making... | |
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