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 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 strani
...that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But...cheer, : And none but the worm is a reveller here. _ I ; Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 strani
...all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Slirth can afford, The revel, the laugh and the jeer? Ah...is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 strani
...dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the langh, and the jeer? Ah 1 here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all...mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm IB a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 strani
...pleasures which Mirth can iiiluiil, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah 1 here is a plentiful lx>ard 1 But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love 1 Ah no ! they have withered and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 strani
...turn have been hid ; The treasures arc squander'd again, And here in the grave are all metals forbid, h ! and oft I blush'd to see its foot more soft And...on those little silver feet ! With what a pretty, Shall we build to Affection and Love? Ah, no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spirit... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 strani
...; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. at their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to Affection and Love... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 strani
...; And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer T Ah ! hero is a plentiful board, But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, Aud none but... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 strani
...which Mirth can afford, Tbe revel, tbo laugh, und the jeorf Ah ! hero is a plentiful board, lint tbo nature know. What though my shrinking flesh complain, Shall we build to Affection and Love Î Ah! no: they have withered aud died, Or lied witb the spirit... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 strani
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford — The revel, the laugh, and the jeert All ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 strani
...again; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which mirth can afford— The revel,...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. "Onto sorrow ? The dead cannot grieve, Not a sob, not a sigh meets mine ear, Which compassion itself... | |
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