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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1859], Knitting-work: a web of many textures. (Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston) [word count] [eaf676T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
He spake unto the little ones In childhood's simplest, tenderest word, While warm love trembled in his tones, And eyes were moist and hearts were stirred. The quivering lip and eager glance Bespoke the young soul's answering thrill; Yet 't was of simple utterance, As gentle as a summer rill. And older ears, too, drank the sound, And loved the music of its strain, As thirsty plants and thirsty ground Hark to the drip of falling rain! It was as dew to sturdy trees, That wakes their half-unconscious powers, The note of distant melodies, That breaks the gloom of dreary hours. The mightiest words that men can speak May not be those that touch the heart, May never pale the ruddy cheek, Or cause the willing tear to start. The fierce tornado's bitter blast Or thunder's crash assail in vain; The still small voice sweeps gently past, And God, confest, is in the strain.
Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1859], Knitting-work: a web of many textures. (Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston) [word count] [eaf676T]. |
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