unrecked

• Unknown, unrecked, unproved! —  Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses
• Bright things which gleam unrecked of, and in vain! —  Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
• You even had thought to flee me By other mindings moved; No influent star endeared me Unknown, unrecked, unproved What, then, was there to tell us The flux of flustering hours Of their own tide would bring us By no device of ours To where the daysprings well us Heart-hydromels that cheer, Till Time enearth and swing us Round with the turning sphere AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY There is not much that I can do, For I've no money that's quite my own Spoke up the pitying child - A little boy with a violin At the station before the train came in But I can play my fiddle to you, And a nice one 'tis, and good in tone The man in the handcuffs smiled; The constable looked, and he smiled, too As the fiddle began to twang; And the man in the handcuffs suddenly sang Uproariously This life so free Is the thing for me!" —  Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses
• The patient gentleness of the Master with the slowness of the scholars is beautifully exemplified here, as is also the method, which He lovingly and patiently adopts, of sending men back to consult their own consciousness as illuminated by His teaching, and to see whether there is not lying somewhere, unrecked of and unemployed in some dusty corner of their mind, a truth that only needs to be dragged out and cleaned in order to show itself for what it is, the all-sufficient light and strength for the moment's need. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
• Then, relieved by the frank glance of Prudence, he fell to musing on the two, so young, so fresh, so joyous in the world and in each other, seeing them side by side with those little half-felt, timidly implied, or unconsciously expressed confidences of boy and girl; sensing the memory of his own lost youth's aroma, his youth that had slipped off unrecked in the haze of his dreams of glory. —  The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West

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