 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1869 - 646 pages
...? Ah, no ! She forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall wo build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas ! 't is in vain ; Who hid, in their turns... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 15 Shall we build to the purple of Pride— The trappings...laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, 19 But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas! 'tis in vain;... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...Beauty ? Ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here "s neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...Î Ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets treet Sounded the tread of marching feet ; All day long that free flag tost Î To the trappings which dizen the proud Î Alas I then they arc all laid aside, And here's neither... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - 1872 - 380 pages
...\ Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride ? The trappings which dizen the proud... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pages
...no! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — . Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? alas I 'tis in vain —... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...Beauty ? Ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets strength went round ; And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding tin twhich it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas... | |
 | Sacred harp - 1874 - 174 pages
...she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ;... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
