 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pagina’s
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 7 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pagina’s
...sedula partis aget : Non balbo proles gratabitur ore parenti, Curret in amplexus, prseripietve genas. 10 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 pagina’s
...Elegy." which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke t Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joye,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Ur climb intent : And twice she paused, and on its trembling beam (iazed with suspended breath, diil they drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pagina’s
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pagina’s
...burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, <>r climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pagina’s
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! . . NEW YOKK VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagina’s
...No children ru'n/ to lisp' their sire's retur'n, Or climb his kn'ees/ the envied ki'ss/ to shar e. Oft did the harvest/ to their si'ckle yiel'd ; Their...How jocund did they driv'e/ their team a-field ! How bowed the w'oods/ beneath their st'urdy stro'ke ! Let not ambiti'on/ mock their useful to'il, Their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pagina’s
...housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, VI. r\ . - ----- ._ .-- Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! VII. 1 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife... 
