 | Society verse - 1922 - 392 pages
...the sunshine of truth : It blights the green leaves in the bowers, It makes an old age of our youth; And the flow of our feeling, once in it, Like a streamlet...no recollection That ever you danced at our Ball! 79 You once could be pleased with our ballads, — To-day you have critical ears; You once could be... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 848 pages
...the sunshine of truth : It blights the green leaves in the bowers, It makes an old age of our youth ; e is famed to do, deceiving ballads — To-day you have critical ears ; You once could be charmed with our salads ; Alas ! you've... | |
 | American fiction - 1902 - 590 pages
...the sunshine of truth, It blights the green leaves in the bowers, It makes an old age of our youth; And the flow of our feeling once in it, Like a streamlet...turn ice in a minute Grows harder by sudden degrees. Prior's is society's comment on itself; Praed's is the criticism of an outside observer. Even upon... | |
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You'll dance, just for once, at our Ball. But out on the World ! from the flowers It shuts out the sunshine of truth : It blights the green leaves in the bowers, It makes an old age of our youth ; And the flow of our feeling, once in it, Like a streamlet... 
