 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
 | Daniel C. Maguire - 284 pages
...the dour side so Peter will call them in and cheer them up . . .) But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...up to me, With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!" And they'll dance like a wave of the sea.38 CONCLUSION From the beginning, there has never been just one... | |
 | Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - 2009 - 138 pages
...Maybe one needs the innocence and security of youth to completely believe that For the good are always merry Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance. But what a difference that view of the world makes as one prepares for sorrows and struggles, the reality... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 2006 - 382 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. Whatever else this poem does, it speaks to me as a friend who would teach me to order my values in... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2007 - 496 pages
...Peter sitting in state, 10 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. 20 10 1904 In the Seven Woods The Arrow I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild... | |
 | Mirjana Lausevic - 2007 - 310 pages
...What's more, being "ethnic" became, for some people and some purposes, cool. For the good are always merry Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. — Keats These lines of Keats quoted in Hinman appear on the inside cover of Mary Wood Hinman's Gymnastic... | |
 | George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1919 - 244 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...merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance : THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION was born on Ash Wednesday, 12 February, 1566/7. He was educated at... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1923 - 772 pages
...part of Christianity as he conceived it to be companionable — to be merry. ' For the good are always merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.' He would have approved that verse from the ' Fiddler of Dooney.' It should be noted, too, that part... | |
 | Joy Robinson-Judd - 1993 - 182 pages
...profound. What is the theme of the poem? The theme is put plainly in the fourth verse: ,,-, , , , , tor the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance', and this thought is extended — 'And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance.' What is implied... | |
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