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" Then since this world is vain, And volatile, and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? 'Why fly from ill With anxious skill, When soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be... "
The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - Page 178
by Henry Kirke White - 1840 - 252 pages
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat Î Henry Kirlce White. 861. DISAPPOIHTMENT, Severe. Like one, who doom'd o'er distant seas His weary path...
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The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the ...

Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...And volatile, and fleet', Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat' ? Why fly from ill With anxious skill, [stilP ? When soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be 8. Come, Disappointment, come ! Thou...
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The poetical works of James Thomson. With life, critical diss., and ...

James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...And volatile, and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With...this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be still? 8 Come, Disappointment, come ! Thou art not stern to me ; Sad monitress ! I own thy sway, A votary...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...vain, And volatile, and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts and moth destroys, w 7@ Qn e d 4 ƚ F jGZu ),fT % 9 I } t/Ț l :A [ Y JE K} \ f lC K# ?— Henry Kirke White. 867. DISAPPOINTMENT. Severe LIKE one, who doom'd o'er distant seas His weary...
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The churchman's text book [&c.].

Churchman - 1877 - 434 pages
...vain And volatile and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With...soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing- heart lie still? NOVEMBER 12. " Pour out your heart before Him."— Ps. Ixii. 8. As the needy only can stoop...
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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 pages
...joys Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat? Why fly from ill With cautions skill, When soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing...monitress! I own thy sway, A votary sad in early day, 1 bend my knee to thee. From sun to sun My race will run ; 1 only bow, and say, My God, Thy will be...
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The Angelus, Volumes 2-3

1876 - 296 pages
...question : " Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys ; And cares our sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With anxious skill,...hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be still." (To be continued.) 142 PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY. Time has only modified some of the external forms of...
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The Poetical Works and Remains of Henry Kirke White

Henry Kirke White - 1881 - 520 pages
...from ill With anxious skill, When soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be still ? vin. Come, Disappointment, come! Thou art not stern to me ; Sad Monitress ! I own thy sway, A notary sad in early day, I bend my knee to thee. From sun to sun My race will run, I only bow, and...
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Holy thoughts on holy things, selected and arranged by E. Davies

Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...from the world — To turn my eye From van:ty, And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die. Come, Disappointment, Come ! Thou art not stern to...monitress ! I own thy sway, A votary sad in early day, To thee I bend my knee : From sun to sun My race will run ; I only bow and say— "My God, Thy will...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...vain, And volatile and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where rust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With anxious skill. When soon this baud will freeze, this throbbing heart be still ? Come, Disappointment, come! Thou art not stem to...
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