 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...  Lillian, and Other Poems - Page 134by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1889 - 118 pages
...he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig, When he began to quote Augustine. Alack TAlack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood triflcdThe level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rilled : The church is... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...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...-- The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled: The church is larger than before; You reach it by a carriage entry; It... | |
 | Austin Dobson, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English poetry - 1892 - 92 pages
...began to quote Augustine. • •>*, " LIKE A STREAM WHICH RUNS WITH RAPID CHANCE FROM ROCKS TO ROSES." Alack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which...trifled, The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled: The church is larger than before; You reach it by a carriage entry; THE... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...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...than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holuj three hundred people more, And pews are fitted up for gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat : you 11... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...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, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...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, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...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, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...singe his powder'd wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig 49 Alack, the change ! In vain I look For haunts in which...; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry : It... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...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, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...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...holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand... | |
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