 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1847 - 574 pages
...Night-birds ore we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is hut short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pages
...Night-birds arc we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perehed round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...Night-birds are we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Bound the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...are we ; Here we carouse, . Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. (64) Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit...free, life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...large-framed, massive-headed, and grey-haired sage that he was — comporting himself as one of us, though he was weightier than all of us ; listening to our many-voiced...evening festivity : — Here let us sport, Boys as wo sit, Laughter and wit Flashing so free: Life is but short ; When we are gone, Let them sing on Round... | |
 | Carols - 1864 - 108 pages
...Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Ilere let us spprt, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Bound the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...Night-birds are we ; Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 436 pages
...Night-birds are we : Here we carouse, Singing like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 432 pages
...Night-birds are we : Here we carouse, Singing like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...Better, ah, how immeasurably better the cordial hand-grasp of each line of " The Mahogany Tree" :— " Here let us sport, Boys as we sit, Laughter and wit...free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. " Still sing on with us, warm heart, large heart, and gentle — " Evenings... | |
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Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. 
