...helplessness is their best guarantee of safety — they exert a most humanizing influence in the world. " 0 what would the world be to us If the children were...the leaves are to the forest, With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...

...fyddai i ni ystyried cwestiynau prydfcrth Longfellow, sef, — Ah ! what would thu world be to ив, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us, Worse than the dark before. Whet the leaves nre to the forrest, With light and air tor food, Ere their »weet and tender juices,...

...Lisburn, Ireland. The verse — Ah ! what would the world be to ui, If the children were no more 1 We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before, is from HW Longfellow's • Children.' WALTER HAMILTON. TOWELL (8th S. ii. 485).— The use of to -at...

...the reflections is only made more distinct and curious by the enlargement. BEE'S BABYHOOD. CHAP. I. " What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their eweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood — That to the world are children ; Through them...

...Without an unkind word ! Speak gently to the erring — know They may have toiled in vain ; CHILDREN. Ah, what would the world be to us If the children...What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood — That to the world are children...

...of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise." And the beloved Longfellow, "Oh! What would the world be to us, If the children were...the desert behind us, Worse than the dark before." The mother of our own George Washington has said: "Mothers, what a holy charge is theirs— with what...

...your thoughts the brooklets flow, But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more Ï We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest,...

...thoughts, the brooklet's flow, But in mine in the wind of Autumn And the Erst fall of the snow. Ah I what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We shonld dread the desert behind ua Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With...

...its hue, and the other its sweet harmony. Well may |Tongfelloki's sweet refrain touch our hearts : " Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children...sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood — * Blanchard. 92 " That to the world are children ; Through these it feels the glow Of a brighter...

...flow, But in mine is the wind of Antnmn And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world bo to us If the children were no more ? We should dread...behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves arc to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices fiave been hardened...