 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...shirt. 5. "But why do I talk of Death, That f Phantom of grisly +bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own, It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...you read. Bnt why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because ofthefastl keep ; Alas I that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! Write... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...5. " But why do I talk of Death,— That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own*, — It seems so like my own', Because of the fasts I keep* ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear', And flesh and blood so cheap*... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone P I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...shirt ! "But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep ; Oh God ! that bread should bo so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...shirt. " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! "... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...! " But why do I talk of Death, That phantom of grisly bone ? 171 I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own ; It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep ; O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! "... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1861 - 394 pages
...Shirt. *< But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own— • It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap... | |
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But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! 
