Richard Heber
Richard Heber
Richard Heberwas an English book-collector...
coral golden roll sunny
From Greenland's icy mountains, / From India's coral strand, / Where Afric's sunny fountains / Roll down their golden sand.
blindness blow bows gifts god heathen kindness lavish man prospect soft spicy though vain wood
What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.
beneath breath cool hill lily shady sweet
By cool Siloam's shady rill / How sweet the lily grows! / How sweet the breath beneath the hill / Of Sharon's dewy rose!
book gentleman use
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
sweet flower rose
By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!