 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...Will tell you all the story there. THE LAST LEAF. I saw him once before As he passed by the door, And again, *• The pavement stones resound As he totters...With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round But now he... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...We first " Memorize" THE LAST LEAF. BT o. WB " I saw him once before At he passed by the door, And again, The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er...With his cane. " They say that in his prime. Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better nun was found By the Crier on his round Through the... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...pure and bright 202 THE LAST LFAFTHE LAST LEAF I SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again, The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. Chey say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...саце. ' They say that in his prime, Ere the рпшшц knifo of Tinto Cut aim down. Not a bettor man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. ' Rut now ho walks the street!, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes h ¡я feeble... | |
 | Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...She was desired to read them. "THE LAST LEAF. "I saw him once before As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er...They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Tune Cut him down, Not a better man was found, By the Crier on his round Through the town. " But now... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...LEAF. BY 0. W. HOLMES. I SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again, The pavement-stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...cradle of the deep. THE LAST LEAF. BY 0. W. HOLMES. I SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er...With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...more ! THE LAST LEAF. I SAW him once before, As he pass'd by the door, And again The pavement-stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the priming-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...star that decks it pure and bright THE LAST LEAF I SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again, The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his , They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found... | |
 | 430 pages
...cheek was like a rose With his cane. In the snow Tlu-y say that in his prime, Ere the lmmi ng-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff ; And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy... | |
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I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his... 
