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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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A Thousand and One Gems of English and American Poetry from Chaucer to ...

Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...volatile, and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where dust corrupts, and moth destroys And care and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With anxious skill,...this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be still ? Henry Kirk White. 1 MORNING. Lo I on the eastern summit, clad in gray, Morn, like a horseman girt...
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ruth

Bible - 1892 - 656 pages
...Where dust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? If' hy fly from ill With anxioiit skill, When soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be still 1 " While. " There are evils worse than famine. What is the real misfortune of life? sin or want of...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...earthly joy*, Where dust corrupts, and moth destroy* And cares and sorrows cat t 266 Why fly from 111 With anxious skill, When soon this hand will freeze,...throbbing heart be still ? Come, Disappointment, come 1 Thou art not stern to me ; Sad monitress 1 I own thy sway, A votary sad in early day, To thce I bend...
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A thousand and one gems of English poetry, selected and arranged by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...And volatile, and fleet* Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where dust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With...still ? Come, Disappointment, come ! Thou art not stem to me ; Sad monitress ! I own thy sway, A votary sad in early day, To thee I bend my knee : From...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 11

Alfred Henry Miles - English poetry - 1906 - 424 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...soon this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart be stil Come, Disappointment, come ! Thou art not stern to me ; Sad Monitress ! I own thy sway, A votary...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White ..., Volume 1

Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1825 - 456 pages
...And volatile, and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly joys, Where dust corrupts, and moth destroys, And cares and sorrows eat ? , Why fly from ill With anxious skill, When sow this hand will freeze, this throbbing heart t,.. be still ? VIII. Come, Disappointment, come !...
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Publications, Issue 139

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1844 - 274 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...early day, I bend my knee to thee ; From sun to sun Thy race will run ; I only bow and say — " My God, thy will be done." FRIENDS. MONTGOMERY. FRIEND...
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The Complete Works of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's ...

Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1899 - 442 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, 8. Come, Disappointment, come ! Thou art not stern to me ; Sad Monitress ! I own thy sway, A votary...
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