 | Theology - 1871 - 870 pages
...diversified exertions for the welfare of his people, his biographer aptly quotes the well-known lines : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." When this inventive pastor had lost the sense of feeling in his right arm and left side, and so had... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. While the memory of such a brother was yet fresh in his heart, and his grief was green, it no doubt... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | Medicine - 1897 - 960 pages
...church, noted for his earnest eloquence in the pulpit and his missionary work among the poor, with whom " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way;" and his mother was Sarah Leader, a Nova Scotian by birth, a suitable helpmate for her husband in works... | |
 | Margaret Chatterjee - Philosophy - 1998 - 332 pages
...increase in the excellence should anything draw near it. This is reminiscent of the lines, 'As a mother bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies.'2 Thus there is an ontological note with an undertone 1 S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy,... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - Catholics - 1922 - 374 pages
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...delay. Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed. The reverend... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...virtues side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - Hinduism - 2003 - 626 pages
...souls to scale ever-higher heights of perfection. We are reminded of the following lines: As a mother bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies. The Lord's excellence towers above time and is beyond the reach of mind and speech. It is the Lord... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And... | |
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... 
