 Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before: You reach it by a carriage entry : It holds three hundred people...  The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 134by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1854 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...learnt the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Qua; genus I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig, When he began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled— The level lawn,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Anthologies - 1867 - 376 pages
...learnt the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Qua genus: I used to singe his powder'd wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig, When he began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, — The level... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and qua genus; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in ; And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...steal the staff he put such trust in, Ami make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine. rth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly I climbed, the beds I rifled ! The church is larger than before. You reach it by a carriage entry ;... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quœ genus. I used to singe his powdered wig, ason (as al Augustine. Alack, the change ! In vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quse genus; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine. Alack the change! In vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn,... | |
 | Living voices - English poetry - 1873 - 588 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus. I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in ; And make...— The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry ;... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cats'-cradle, leap-frog, and Quas genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine. W. Mackmorth Praed. OTHER TIMES, OTHER MANNERS. HARRY BAYI.IS (Hood's " Hal Baylis"), a... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...learned the Rule of Three, Cat's-cradlc, leap-frog, and Qurc genus ; I used to singe his powdcr'd wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in ; And make...puppy dance a jig, "When he began to quote Augustin. 329 n look wyliood trifled. — brook, ds I rifled : fore ; 'entry ; more ; gentry. "lUril hear oilman,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 866 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and QUÍB genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig \\ Ьгн he began to quote Augustine. That Praed should have gathered so little fame is the more remarkable... | |
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