 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Clergy - 1861 - 406 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. That is really the sum of what is to be said on the subject. And it has always appeared to me that... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Clergy - 1861 - 482 pages
...And flow as now it flows. ' " And h'ere, on this delightful day, , I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." ' That is really the sum of what is to be said on the subject. And it has always appeared to me that... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - Conduct of life - 1861 - 474 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. '" And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." ' That is really the sum of what is to be said on the subject. And it has always appeared to me that... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...years And flow as now it flows. ' And here, on this delightful day I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. ' Thus fares it still in our... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. " And here on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, for the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish teavs, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tearf>, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus... | |
 | Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere - Characters and characteristics - 1863 - 444 pages
...that most conduce to public prosperity. PECULIARITIES OF AGE. 345 CHAPTEB IX. PECULIARITIES OF AGE. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than that he leaves behind. W. SCOTT. OF all unwelcome visitors, there are none so... | |
 | 1863 - 858 pages
...delightful day I can not choose but think, How oft a vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain-brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." Now, it would have been the hight of absurdity for Wordsworth to have put this song into the lips of... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 pages
...when I sorrow most: "Tis better to have loved and lost, • » Than never to have loved at all. 1. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 2. With nature they do never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 
