 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 320 pagini
...vigour at first That I never might need them at last. You are old, Father William, the young man cried1. And pleasures with youth pass away, And yet you lament...Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1800 - 318 pagini
...youth pass away, And yet you lament not the days that are gone* Now tell me the reason I pray. 227 In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I...Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pagini
...And pleasures with youth pass away, In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember' d that youth could not last ; I thought of the future...Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pagini
...be insensible to the charming simplicity, to_ the religious beauty, of the two last stanzas ? ' You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray.... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pagini
...Comforts. 33 " In the days of my youth," father William replied, "I remember'd that youth could riot last; I thought of the future whatever I did, That...the past." " You are old, father William," the young man vcried, " And life must be hast'ning away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon * death... | |
 | 1807 - 550 pagini
...days that are gone, Now tell me the reason I pray. In the days of my youth, Father William ret plied, I remember'd that youth could not last; I thought...for the past. You are old, Father William, the young ma» cried, And life must he hastening away; Yon are cheerful, aud love to converse upoa death! Now... | |
 | 1807 - 472 pagini
...gone^ Now tell me the reason 1 pray. In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remembcr'd that youth could not last; I thought of the future,...I did, That I never might grieve for the past. You arc old, Father William, the youug man tried, And life must be hastening «way ; You are cheerful,... | |
 | 1807 - 514 pagini
...gone, Now tell me the reason 1 pray. In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I rememher'd that youth could not last; I thought of the future, whatever I did, That 1 never might grieve for the past. You are old, Father William, the young uiai cried, And life must... | |
 | Poetry - 1804 - 184 pagini
...33 " In the days of ray youth," father William replied, " I remember'd that youth could not laft ; I thought of the future whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the paft." «' You are old, father William," the yqung man cried, , " And life muft be haft'ning away;... | |
 | 1814 - 984 pagini
...• "In the days of my youth," Father William reply'd, " I remembered that youth could not last, And thought of the future, whatever I did, That I never...., '. • " You are old, Father William," the young man cry'd, "And life must be hastening away, You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death, Now... | |
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William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ; Now tell me the reason, I pray. 
