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How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Our God, our help in ages past (1719)
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul;
The mind's the standard of the man.
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
Psalm 98 "Joy to the World! (1719)
And he that does one fault at first
And lies to hide it, makes it two.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
I have been there, and still would go;
'T is like a little heaven below.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Birds in their little nests agree;
And 'tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
The tall, the wise, the reverend head,
Must be as low as ours.
I would not change my native land
For rich Peru with all her gold.
A nobler prize lies in my hand
Than East or Western Indies hold.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Logic: or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry after Truth (1724)
One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
The wise will make their anger cool
At least before 'tis night.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
A flower, when offered in the bud,
Is no vain sacrifice.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
The word Analysis signifies the general and particular heads of a discourse, with their mutual connections, both co-ordinate and subordinate, drawn out into one or more tables.
Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1903)
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Psalm 98 "Joy to the World! (1719)
Softly his fainting head he lay
Upon his Maker's breast;
His Maker kiss'd his soul away,
And laid his flesh to rest.
In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be past,
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.
Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)