A FOOL there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I !) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I... Gateway - Page 191905Full view - About this book
| 1902 - 462 pages
...thought it an idiot's dream,) But the fool considered it Art Supreme (Even as you and I! ). Oh, the time we waste and the tears we waste, And the work of our head and hand Belong to the man who corrects the theme, (We 'd like to catch him correcting the theme, For he does not understand!)... | |
| R. H. Andrews - 1916 - 454 pages
...qualities of a thing nor its worth escape thee," especially so when proprietary marks its literature. "Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste, and the work of our head and hand." said Kipling, whose words, evidently, we can use to illustrate years and tears wasted, work of head... | |
| Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1897 - 226 pages
...his prayer (Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care)) But the fool he called her his lady...that she never could know) And did not understand. A fool there was and his goods he spent (Even as you and I), Honor and faith and a sure intent (And... | |
| Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1897 - 362 pages
...(.Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not careU But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as...that she never could know) And did not understand. A fool there was and his goods he spent (Even as you and I), Honor and faith and a sure intent (And... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 168 pages
...his prayer (Even as you and I !) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I !). Qh, the years ive ivaste and the tears ive ivaste, <•'..' the ivork of our head and hand, fslong... | |
| Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1899 - 40 pages
...I am the man that's bound to come ! 21 THE PUBLIC. ( With acknowledgments to Mr. Rudyard Kipling?) OH, the years we waste and the tears we waste, And the work of our head and hand Belong to the Public that doesn't read verse (And, probably, never will learn to read verse) Which it does not understand!... | |
| 1899 - 258 pages
...I felt myself sliding down the curve of one of his hyperbolas, back into Finity. APPLIED QUOTATION OH the years we waste and the tears we waste, And the work of our head and hand, Belonged to the woman who did not know (And now we know she never could know) And never could understand.... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1899 - 240 pages
...his prayer (Even as you and I !) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I !) " "A tremendously powerful and strikingly original and realistic variation of the eternal plaint... | |
| Eliza Barton Lyman - 1900 - 318 pages
...his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, We called her the woman, who did not care But the fool, he called her his lady...that she never could know And did not understand." * We sat long in silence, until I began to boil inwardly. "Well, that is not very interesting — not... | |
| 1900 - 532 pages
...fool was glad when it filled his purse, (Even as you and I !) Oh the brains we waste and the pains we waste And the work of our head and hand Belong to the public who doesn't know (And now we know that it never can know) And does not understand. A fool there... | |
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