 | 1868 - 398 pages
...the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac ; Rich in broad woodlands and in half-till'd fields. And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless,...his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid his taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency ! MANNERS are much with all, but most with teachers.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halftilled fields, And yet...homesteads of a land Where whoso wisely wills and acts mav dwell As king and lawgiver, in broad-acred state, With beauty, art, taste, culture, books, to make... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1874 - 500 pages
...halttilled fields, And yet so pinched and hare and comfort less, The veriest straggler limping on h\i rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid itj taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency ! Not such should be the homesteads o/ a land Where... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in half -tilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless,...veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air Ins sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid its taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...halltilled fields, And yet so pinched and hare and com1 fortless, The veriest straggler limping on ha rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid it* taxes, And hugged his jags in self-complacency ! Not such should be the homesteads of a land Where... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halttilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The veriest straggler limping on h* rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid iu taxes, And hugged... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...almanac: Rich in broad woodlands and in half-tilled 6elds, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, 95 The veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at poverty that paid its taxes, A nd hugged his rags in self-complacency! Not such should be the homesteads... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...Rich in broad woodlands and in half-tilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, 95 The veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at poverty that paid its taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency! Not such should be the homesteads... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in half-tilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, 95 The veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed a,t poverty... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...straggler limping on hM rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid it* taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency ! Not such should be the homesteads o/ a land Where whoso wisely wills and acts ma/ dwell As king and lawgiver, in broad-acred state, With... | |
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Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity ; in daily life Showing as little actual comprehension Of Christian charity and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated... 
