 The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. [The saint who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The sinner...  Abraham Lincoln - Page 384by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude go, like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed : So the multitude... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...steep ; The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 pages
...steep ; The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...steep; The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away with the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...steep ; The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven ; The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. Bo the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...steep ; The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. [The saint who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.] So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed ; So the... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 pages
...steep, The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. [The saint, who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The...just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.] So the multitude goes — like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...beggar, who wandered in search of his . bread — Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The samt e left the cord tho. He that had hid the gold, and found it not, Of unf orgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1868 - 868 pages
...steep, The 'BEGGAR, who wandered in search of his bread, Have !FADED AWAY like the GRASS that we tread. The 'SAINT, who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The...JUST, Have quietly "MINGLED their bones in the 'DUST. So the *мш TITULA * GOES — like the FLOWER or thî WEED That withers away to let 'OTHERS succeed;... | |
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