 | Edwin Waugh - 1872 - Страниц: 246
...covering, Which I've worn for three score years and ten ; On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to k-cep hovering. Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again ;...But my face, in the glass, I'll serenely survey, And counting each wrinkle and furrow, Hope this old, worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become... | |
 | Heathergate - 1873 - Страниц: 342
...must put off this frail covering, Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow.'" " I like that,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Страниц: 870
...must throw off this frail covering Which I 've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the It raised my ꂀ y ꂀ s O "= 1876 W. & R. Chambers"# Chambers Ro I '11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff which... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Страниц: 860
...off this frail covering Which I Ve worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave 1 41 3 vols. 1845): Sonnet on Night. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from rep I '11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff which... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - Страниц: 326
...must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn-out stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. 7. Collins 15 nabob,... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - Страниц: 424
...must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn-out stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. NOTE. 1 nabob, an... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - Страниц: 428
...must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn-out stuff which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. HERBERT KNOWLE3. HERBERT... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - Страниц: 206
...must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. ; John Collins: died,... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - Страниц: 274
...this frail covering Which I 've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I '11 not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again. But my face in the glass I '11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this poor worn-out stuff which... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - Страниц: 270
...off this frail covering Which I Ve worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I '11 not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again. Bat my face in the glass 1 11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this... | |
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I share what to-day may afford, And let them spread the table to-morrow. And when I at last must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish... 
