We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. Here and There: Quaint Quotations, a Book of Wit - Page 125by H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 176 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nathan Drake - 1804 - 572 pages
...Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the Even-Song; And, having prayM together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you,...quick a growth to meet Decay, As you, or any thing. W« die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of Morning's... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 pages
...excelled in the moral, and pathetic. His choice of measure too is admirably adapted to the strain. As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or any thing : We die, As your hours do; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again.... | |
| 1822 - 384 pages
...stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run Bat to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay, as you...decay, As you, or any thing : We die, As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again."... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay, as you...decay, As you, or any thing: We die, As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again."... | |
| 1847 - 648 pages
...stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along! We have short time to stay, as you...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or anything: "We die, As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning... | |
| 1822 - 394 pages
...even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with yon along. We have short time to stay as yon, We have as short a spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or any thing, We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's due Ne'er to he found again.... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along! We have short time to stay, as you...decay, As you, or any thing: We die ' As your hours do; and dry Away, Like to the summer's raine, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found agame.... | |
| S. Waring - 1827 - 122 pages
...stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run .But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay as you,...meet decay As you, or any thing: We die As your hours do; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or, as the pearls of morning dew, »e'er to be found again.... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, But to the even song ; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay as you...meet decay As you or any thing: We die As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again.... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even song; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you,...decay, As you or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.... | |
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