 To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.  The Quarterly review - Page 3971819Full view - About this book
 | Young women's Christian assoc - 186 pages
...tomb. " Here, in the grave, are all metals forbid, Hut the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin lid." "The pleasures which mirth can afford? The revel,...cheer. And none but the worm is a reveller here." On looking back along the chequered vale of life, do we not find, all through its course, the lesson... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 pages
...tinsel that shone on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford— The revel, tlie laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board...pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here ! Shall we build to Affection and Love ? Ah, no ! they have wither'd and died, Or fled with the spitit... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1844 - 274 pages
...again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which mirth can afford, The revel,...the laugh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful hoard, But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is reveller here.... | |
 | 1820 - 684 pages
...lual shone ou the dark coffin lid. Tb (he pleasures which mirth can afford, To th? iev«l, the laujli, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board '. But the guests are all mute at the pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here. Shall we build to affection and love... | |
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