 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 pages
...from a sacred home. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade,—, Had seen the mice by moonlight play— And why should...power to kill ; yet, strange to tell! In quiet we had learned to dwell. My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell I In quiet we had learn'd to dwell ; My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends... | |
 | Edward Livingston Wilson - Voyages and travels - 1878 - 346 pages
...me from a second home ; With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Hud power to kill ; yet, strange to tell, In quiet we had learned to dwell 1 My very chains and I grew... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...me from a sacred home. Wi 'h spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade ; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should I feel less than they Î We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill ; yet, strange... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...from a second home : 380 With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...less than they ? We were all inmates of one place, 385 And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learn'd... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pages
...me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...to kill — yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learned to dwell — My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...me from a second home ; With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade. X Z learned to dwell, — / -a My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...from a second home: With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, 155 Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...each race, Had power to kill — yet strange to tell! ieo In quiet we had learn'd to dwell — My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...from a sacred home. .'&, With spiders I had friendship made And watched them in their sullen trade ; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should...less than they ? We were all inmates of one place, 385 And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill ; yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learned... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1881 - 220 pages
...tear me from a sacred home. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade Had seen the mice by moonlight play— And why should...power to kill ; yet, strange to tell! In quiet we had learned to dwell. My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what... | |
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With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill; yet, strange... 
