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" ... adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? "
Historia Rievallensis: Containing the History of Kirkby Moorside ... to ... - Page 159
by William Eastmead - 1824 - 486 pages
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Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English ...

1871 - 476 pages
...adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud To Riches ? Alas, 't is in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid: The...the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the...
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Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English ...

Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 't is in vain 1 Who hid, in their turns have been hid: The treasures...the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark cofHn-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford. The revel, the laugh, and the...
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Sunday Evenings at Northcourt

George Etell Sargent - 1872 - 386 pages
...here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the sliroud To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain — Who hid, in their...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...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...nor adornments allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Biches ? Alas Г the present, I turn to the past ; And the eye is...recollections of former years ; And the shadows of things t shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth con afford, The revel, the laugh, and the...
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A Garland of Poetry

Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pages
...Riches? alas I 'tis in vain — Who hid, in their turn have been hid — The treasures are squander'd again ; And here in the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shone on the dark coftin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth ca.i afford — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer! Ah ! here...
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The sacred harp, a book of devotional poetry

Sacred harp - 1874 - 174 pages
...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 ; Who hid...again ; And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid. Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel,...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hide in their turns have been hid ; The treasures are squandered...again : And here in the grave are all metals forbid, Save the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, Tho revel,...
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections ...

1876 - 754 pages
...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ! Who hid,...the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coflin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain ; Who...the grave are all metals forbid But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best Monor Poems ...

1876 - 508 pages
...adornment allowed. But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud, To Riches ? Alas, 't is in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid :...the grave are all metals forbid, But the tinsel that shines on the dark coffin-lid. To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the...
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