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When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome
life of the teacher.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome
life of the teacher.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.
The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
