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" These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had... "
A First Book of Composition for High Schools - Page 230
by Thomas Henry Briggs, Isabel McKinney - 1913 - 300 pages
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 66

1900 - 1070 pages
...the mouth of the Fool, and which sinks into the heart of the King, ought to be oftener on our lips : The ill-timed truth we might have kept— Who knows...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall ! The blunders of the good are sometimes more difficult to repair than evil deeds; and they are few...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 43

American essays - 1879 - 978 pages
...blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept, — Who knows...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will;...
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The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose ..., Issues 6-12

George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. ; : "The ill-timed truth we might hare kept, — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?...faults no tenderness should ask, .... . The chastening stripe must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heavrn we...
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice ..., Volume 5

Readers - 1883 - 804 pages
...blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept, — Who knows..."Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripe must cleanse them all >, But for our blunders, — oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we...
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The Harvard Monthly, Volumes 43-44

College students' writings, American - 1907 - 682 pages
...blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave and scourge the tool That did his will ; but...
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The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspapers and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885

American poetry - 1885 - 470 pages
...heart-strings of a friend. ;4The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung I The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will;...
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The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870-1885

American poetry - 1885 - 466 pages
...of a friend. 14 The ill-time truth that we have kept — We know how sharp it pierced and stung I M The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how...chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our b^bj^ders -*>oh, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ;...
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The Cambridge Annual for 1886-1888

George F. Crook - 1885 - 108 pages
...blossoms without end; These hard, well.meaning hands we thrust Among the heart.strings of a friend. Our faults no tenderness should ask; The chastening...blunders! Oh! in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall! Earth bears no balsam for mistakes. Men crown the knave and scourge the fool! They did his will. But,...
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Poems

Edward Rowland Sill - Poetry, Modern - 1887 - 134 pages
...blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. 64 Tbe Fool's Prayer " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool...
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Poems

Edward Rowland Sill - Poetry, Modern - 1887 - 134 pages
...blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. " The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows...— oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will...
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