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Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.
But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has read more
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has passed.
By that sin fell the angels.
By that sin fell the angels.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
An old dog barks not in vain.
An old dog barks not in vain.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.