 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 140 pągines
...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 ! "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pągines
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pągines
...busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pągines
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; 25 No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! 30 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pągines
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run. to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hia knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pągines
...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, 9. The boast... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pągines
...those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap Each in hie narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pągines
...yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy...How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! 16 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pągines
...shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude4 forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of...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... | |
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pągines
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the...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... | |
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Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; 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 joys and destiny... 
