| 1897 - 526 sivua
...undetected potential merit in the lines we all learnt as children— Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. But the merits of the gem and the flower will no longer be wasted when the search for them is made everywhere... | |
| Mattie Lee Boyd - 1942 - 300 sivua
...existence, and 'tis as the poet Gray expressed it when he said: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Full many...unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But to us who organized it, and held membership in it, the time was not wasted, as we can still recall... | |
| Missouri Botanical Garden - 1892 - 302 sivua
...fruits are ripening, and Nature is clothed in her loveliest garb. " Fuil many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear, Full many...nnseen And waste Its sweetness on the desert air." But are they hid? Do they sparkle and blush unseen? There is ever an eye upon them that delights in their... | |
| 1865 - 788 sivua
...own hand, and could repeat from memory many and many a page. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. " But Heaven has its own economies ; and perhaps floral " sweetness " is quite as little wasted upon the... | |
| 1975 - 150 sivua
...same questions 100 years ago when he gazed at the headstones in a county church yard and observed : Pull many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Nowhere, I believe, can the... | |
| 1906 - 664 sivua
...much good in the worst of us. lt hardly behooves any of us To speak ill of the rest of us." and — "Pull many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Benefits. With local organizations... | |
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