Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION. American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
| 1857 - 34 pages
...done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou has taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; 14 But lastly let me not fail to remind you that there is one influence to which you are indebted... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...earn'da night's repose. 8. Thanks v , thanks to thee, my worthy friend', For the lesson thou hast taughtM Thus, at the flaming forge of life', Our fortunes must be wrought^, Thus, on its sounding anvil', shap'd Each burning deed and thought v . XVI. — THE THUNDER STORM.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast tanght ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pages
...more, how in the grave she lies,And with his hard, rough hand he wipes a tear from out his eyes. 8. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, for the lesson thou hast Thus at the flaming forge of life our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped each... | |
| 1858 - 918 pages
...way, Longfellow understands. He tells us that we must work, and hard it may be at the forge of life. "Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life, Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! " Many more such well-taught lessons... | |
| Charles Hatch Smith - 1858 - 406 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, lias earned a night's repose. " Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought." * Now walk half the width of the... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1858 - 264 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! NOTES.—HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...hegin, Each evenmg sees its close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earn'da night's repose, Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life, Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus, on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed, each thought. KATHLEEN, MAVOUEKEEK Mrs. CBAWPOED.]... | |
| John Erskine Clarke - 1858 - 152 pages
...through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Has earn'da night's repose. Thanks.thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast...flaming forge of life, Our fortunes must be wrought— Thus, on its sounding anvil, shaped Each burning deed and thought. TUBAL CAIN. C. MACKAY.—Music at... | |
| Robert Steel - 1859 - 466 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. "Thanks, thanks, to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought," Would that men of hammer-and-hand,... | |
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