 | Easy poetry - 1865 - 206 pages
...man cried, " And life must be hast'ning away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ; " I am cheerful, young man," father William replied,...cause thy attention engage : In the days of my youth I remember'd my God, And he hath not forgotten my age." SOUTHEY. AN EVENING HYMN. LORD, I have passed... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Readers and speakers - 1865 - 300 pages
...hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse1 upon death ; Now tell me the reason, I pray ?" 6. "I am cheerful, young man," Father William replied...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remember'd my God ! And He hath not forgotten my age !" SOUTHBT. 39. DISOBEDIENCE. \ 'V7'OU have never... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...the past." " You are old, Father William," tl*e young man cried, " And life must be hastening away : You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remembered my God ; And he hath not forgotten my age !" 132 THE WELSHWOMAN AND HER LODGER. KEY. JS... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 202 pages
...the past." " You are old, Father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hastening away : You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remember'd my God ; And he hath not forgotten my age ! " SoutJiey. JOHN GILPIN. JOHN PROPOSES A WEDDING... | |
 | 1866 - 288 pages
...the past." " You are old, Father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death...thy attention engage : In the days of my youth, I remembered my God ; And he hath not forgotten my age." WESTBURY, 1799. TRANSLATION OF A GREEK ODE ON... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...man cried, " And life must be hastening away : Tou are cheerful, and love to converse upon death P Now tell me the reason, I pray ? " " I am cheerful,...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remember'd my God ; And He hath not forgotten my age 1 " — 30 — THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-LOW.... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...the past." " You are old, Father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hastening away : You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ? Now tell me the reason, I pray P " " I am cheerful, young man," Father William replied, " Let the cause thy attention engage ; In... | |
 | James Capes Story - Apprentices - 1879 - 176 pages
...the past." " You are old, Father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remembered my God, And He hath not forgotten my age." SOUTHEY. INDOLENCE. IT was not by vile loitering... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 134 pages
...the past." "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death...cause thy attention engage : In the days of my youth I remembered my God, And He hath not forgotten my age." SOUTHEY. A MASQUERADE. A little old woman before... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...for the past' 'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death,...cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my youth I remember'd my God, And He hath not forgotten my age.' R. Southey LXXXVII THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE... | |
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You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason, I pray. 
