 Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little...  Werner's Readings and Recitations - Page 831896Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rugs — were they purple, his heart had been proud! We that had loved him so, followed him, honored... | |
 | Fashion - 470 pages
...others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs, who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for...been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...We that had loved him so, followed him, honor'd him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye ; LearnM his great language, caught his clear accents; Made him our pattern to live and to die ! Shakfipeare was of us, Milton was for us ; Burns, Shelley, were with us — they fight from their... | |
 | 1849 - 1052 pages
...We that had loved him so, follow'd him, honour'd him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye; Learn'd his great language, caught his clear accents ; Made him our pattern to live and to die! Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us ; Burns, Shelley, were with us,—they fight from their graves!... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...ouj- copper had gone for his service ! Rage — were they purple, bis heart had been proud! We thnt had loved him so, followed him, honored him, Lived...clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die ! Shukcfpear was of us, Millón was for ue; Burns, Shelley, were with us, — they watched from their... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was their's who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for...been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,... | |
 | Christianity - 1851 - 534 pages
...So much was theirs who so little allow'd: How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags—were they purple, his heart had been proud! We that had loved him so, follow'd him, honour'd him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learn'd his great language, caught... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1860 - 296 pages
...Just for a riband to stick in his coat." And then afterwards it describes the party he had deserted. " We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him,...accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die." I cannot remember the rest accurately ; but the poem tells how they, the deserted, will go on doing... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for...been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed ! How all our coppers bad gone for his service — Rags ! were they purple — his heart had been proud 1 « We who had loved him so —honoured him —followed him — Lived in his mild and magnificent... | |
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