 I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair. When we come at the end of time, To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the...  New Outlook - Page 2611913Full view - About this book
 | William Butler Yeats - 1922 - 390 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate ; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...come up to me, With " Here is the fiddler of Dooney I And dance like a wave of the sea. THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE 0903) THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE MAEVE... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; " • For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: Ah Old Woman of the Roads And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With "Here is... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1924 - 750 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. THE pleasant little villages that grace the Irish glynns Down among the wheatfields — up amid the whins,... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1924 - 394 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney ! " And dance like a wave of the sea. William Butler Yeats. * CXXXVII THE DARKLING THRUSH I LEANT upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1924 - 390 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate ; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. 47 THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE (1903) THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE MAEVE the great queen was pacing to... | |
 | Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 pages
...and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest ? (j) For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance. No. 5 1 . Mention five of Shakespeare's outstanding men of action, and give an account of one of them.... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - 1928 - 568 pages
...eye glances And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. FOB For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. YEATS B. BACK VOWELS Be particularly careful to round the back vowels [u], [o], fo], [o], and [D].... | |
 | Pamela Grey - 1928 - 272 pages
...pleasures to choose to sit down upon his little handful of thorns. Jeremy Taylor. FOR the good are always merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance. W, B. Yeats. MY stones are covered o'er with lichens grey, And many years have written in my sides... | |
 | Mary Sturt, Ellen C. Oakden - 1928 - 378 pages
...opinion. 3. — Are parents unwise in trying to teach children to make up their own minds ? 4. — For the good are always the merry Save by an evil chance. What do you think about this dictum ? 5. — What are the chief means of health that are still most... | |
 | United States. 75th Cong., 3d sess., 1938. House - 1938 - 136 pages
...grand old name of gentleman. William Butler Yeats, the Irish delineator of Celtic character, said: For the good are always the merry Save by an evil chance • • •. And Billy was always merry and always good, and those were the qualities that made him so keen in all he... | |
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