 Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They...  North Carolina Medical Journal - Page 341896Full view - About this book
 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 pages
...By the Crier on his round But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn As he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if he said,...pressed .In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady — she is dead... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...his round Through the town. \ But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...pressed In their bloom, ' And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pages
...his round Through the town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grand mama has said — Poor old... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb... | |
 | 1839 - 204 pages
...better man was found, By the Crier on his round Through the town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes...' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn; And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.... | |
 | 1848 - 276 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year My grandmama has said— Poor old lady—she is dead Long ago; That... | |
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