Mother Goose for Grown FolksHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1887 - 204 páginas |
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... HOPE beckoned Youth , and bade him keep , On Life's broad plain , his shining sheep , And while along the sward they came , He called them over , each by name ; This one was Friendship , -that was Health ; Another Love , another Wealth ...
... HOPE beckoned Youth , and bade him keep , On Life's broad plain , his shining sheep , And while along the sward they came , He called them over , each by name ; This one was Friendship , -that was Health ; Another Love , another Wealth ...
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... Hope spread his wings to scale a mountain ; And , somehow , Youth fell fast asleep , And left his crook to tend the sheep : No wonder , as the legend says , They took to very crooked ways . He woke to hear a distant bleating , - - The ...
... Hope spread his wings to scale a mountain ; And , somehow , Youth fell fast asleep , And left his crook to tend the sheep : No wonder , as the legend says , They took to very crooked ways . He woke to hear a distant bleating , - - The ...
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... Hope Looks backward from the mountain slope , - And Youth himself- no longer Youth- Stands face to face with bitter Truth . Yet let them go ! ' T were all in vain To linger here in faith to find ' em ; Forward ! -nor pause to think of ...
... Hope Looks backward from the mountain slope , - And Youth himself- no longer Youth- Stands face to face with bitter Truth . Yet let them go ! ' T were all in vain To linger here in faith to find ' em ; Forward ! -nor pause to think of ...
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... Hope takes to build her brittle boat , And therein sets the wisest men afloat . Truly , a bark would need be somewhat stronger , To make the halting history much longer . Doubtless , the good Dame did but gener- alize , Took a broad ...
... Hope takes to build her brittle boat , And therein sets the wisest men afloat . Truly , a bark would need be somewhat stronger , To make the halting history much longer . Doubtless , the good Dame did but gener- alize , Took a broad ...
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... youth : With hands outstretched , and asking alms Of Hope and Love and Truth . Nor , verily , doth he escape Who , wrapt in cold contempt , Denies alike to give or take , And dreams himself exempt ; Who never , in appeal to man , Nor in.
... youth : With hands outstretched , and asking alms Of Hope and Love and Truth . Nor , verily , doth he escape Who , wrapt in cold contempt , Denies alike to give or take , And dreams himself exempt ; Who never , in appeal to man , Nor in.
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