 | 1855 - 488 pages
...all numbered. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. MATT. x. 29, 30, 31. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join: his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement and means... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...song twitter'd to dawning day. Hut most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within,...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means... | |
 | William Langland - 1856 - 382 pages
...parallel passage of a modern poet. But most of all it wins my admiration To view the structure of this little work— A bird's nest. Mark it well, within,...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all: And yet how neatly finished 1 What nice hand, With every implement and means... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1857 - 696 pages
...has said, and said truly — " But most of all it wins my admiration To view the structure of this little work — A bird's nest. Mark it well, •within,...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished. What nice hand With every implement and means... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1860 - 540 pages
...hit upon by a much more receut poet, who had probably never read the works of the Malvern Dreamer : " A bird's nest ; mark it well within, without, No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No bodkin to insert, his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...swift planets in their spheres, And counts the sinner's lonely tears. THE BIRD'S NEST. tox. BEHOLD a bird's nest ! Mark it well within, without ! No tool had he that wrought, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished... | |
 | Edward Newman - 1861 - 64 pages
...than to preserve these lasting monuments of " instinctive genius." BIRDS' NESTS AND BIRDS' EGGS. " It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand With every implement and means... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pages
...production. — EDS.] TjFT wins my admiration S To view the structure of that little work — A birds nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join;— his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished! — -What nice hands, With every implement and... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...constructed with so much art, as to baffle the utmost exertion of human ingenuity to imitate them. ' ' Mark it well, within, without, No tool had he that...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join, his little beak was all — And yet how nicely finished !" Birds of the same species collect the same... | |
 | Catharine Crowe - 1861 - 214 pages
...found an engraving of a bird's nest, accompanied by the following lines : " Behold a bird's nest ! Hark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought...nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! what nice hand, With every implement, and... | |
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To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished !... 
