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" O, poor man's son ! scorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign ; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in fee. "
The North American Review - Page 299
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 22

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 648 pages
...weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great; Work only makes the soul to shine, And makes rr*t fragrant and benign: A heritage, it seems to me. Worth being poor to hold in fee. 1 Both heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last ; Both children of the same dear...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...merely being rich and great; Work only makes the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign : 20 A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold...earth at last; Both children of the same dear GOD ; 95 Prove title to your heirship vast, By record of a well-filled past : A heritage, it seems to me,...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...fragrant and benign: 20 A heritage, it seems to me, 15 Oh! poor man's son, scorn not thy state;— . Worth being poor to hold in fee. Both heirs to some...earth at last; Both children of the same dear GOD ; 25 Prove title to your heirship vast, By record of a well-filled past: A heritage, it seems to me,...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 308 pages
...man's son ! scorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign ; A heritage, it seems to me, Both, heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last ; Both, children of the same dear...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...being rich and great ; Work only makes the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign : <J0 A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in foe. Both heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last ; Both children of the same...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 75

1872 - 812 pages
...man's son ! scorn not thy state; There is worse weariness than thine In merely being rich and great; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest...to some six feet of sod. Are equal in the earth at lut; Both, children of the same dear God, Prove title to your heirship rat By record of a well-fined...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 3

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...the soul lo shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign; A heritage it seems lo me, Worth being poor lo hold in fee. Both, heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equiil in ihe earth at !asl — Both children of the same dear God, Prove liile to your heirship vast,...
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Poems, Volume 1

James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...man's son ! scorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest...your heirship vast By record of a well-filled past; A heiitage, it seems to me, Well worth a life to hold in fee. THE ROSE: A BALLAD. IN his tower sat the...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...rich and great ; Toil only gi\ eg the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign; A heritasre, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in fee. Both,...God, Prove title to your heirship vast By record of a well-fill'd past ; A heritage, it seems to me, Well worth a life to hold in fee. TO THE FUTURE. O,...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...man's son, seorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rieh and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest...heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in fee. Jama R. LmeeWt Poems. PRAISE. Or who would ever eare to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to...
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