 The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 268edited by - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1919 - 74 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, " I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, 14 WINE AND WATER And Noah he cocked his eye and said, " It looks like rain, I think, The water has... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1923 - 632 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, " I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, Tne seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1925 - 1184 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think, Alcibiades to a Jealous Girl 473 The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine, But... | |
 | G. K. Chesterton - 1986 - 620 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' But Noah he sinned,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." 7 d, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage. (I, v) NAWM-1 28 1 think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine, But I don't care where the... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down the sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down the sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked... | |
 | United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 532 pages
...wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding...came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine, But I don't care where the water goes... | |
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