...applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, Aud feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? " But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense...

...polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed . WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair...

...polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WK ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair...

...for our hero a requiem of fire ! 42. WE ARE SEVEN. — Wordsworth A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath , And feels its life...she said : Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair,...

...along its pebbly road And the fragrant flowers around, Loved to hear its happy sound WE ABE SEVEN. I MET a little cottage girl: She was eight years old...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were fair,...

...exuberauce and joy of living, it is not in him to conceive of his ceasing to be, " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" asks the religious poet of our age, who, in his immortal ode, entitled, " Intimations of Immortality...

...future men As in old time;—thou not in vain Art Nature's favorite. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair; Her beauty...

...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,...she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?' ' How many? Seven...

...Lucy Gray. St. 2. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. We are Seven. A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? The Pet Lamb. Drink, pretty creature, drink. The Brothers. Until a man might travel twelve stout...

...Then shall I be Prepared to see thy ftwi. THE CHILD AT THE TOMB. " A little child, That lightly iraws its breath, And feels its life in every limb — What should it know of death ? " I met one morning a little girl with a half-playful countenance, beaming blue eyes, and sunny locks, bearing...