 | 1813 - 410 sider
...seat with list'ning ear; And gentle words would mother give. To fit me to die, and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...lisp my earliest prayer As I knelt beside that old arm chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eyes grew dim, and her locks were gray. And I... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 sider
...youth, J lingered near And gentle words that mother would give To fit me to die, and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for my creed, and God for my guide. As I knelt beside that old arm chair. She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, I sat and watched her... | |
 | 1841 - 306 sider
...with list'ning ear; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eyes grew dim, and her locks were gray ; And I almost worshipp'd... | |
 | 1843 - 184 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die, and teach me to live ; She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt heside that old arm-chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eyes grew dim, and her locks... | |
 | 1841 - 404 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...earliest prayer As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were grey ; And I almost worshipped... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die, and teach me to live : She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were grey ; And I... | |
 | Joseph Fearn - 1844 - 270 sider
...and, because they loved me, taught me to follow the truth, and to avoid error, " They told me that shame would never betide With truth for my creed, and God for my guide." They took every opportunity of correcting in my childhood what they rightly deemed amiss ; and which,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To lii me to die and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beaide that old arm-chair. I sat and watch'd her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. I sat and watch'd her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were gray ; 1 And I almost worshipp'd... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1849 - 560 sider
...with listening ear ; And gentle words that mother would give, To fit me to die and teach me to live. She told me shame would never betide, With truth for...earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were gray ; And I almost worshipped... | |
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With truth for my creed and God for my guide ; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. 
