 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pagini
...I've worn for three score years and tea, On the brink of the grave I'll not'seck to keep hov'ring, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And,withsmiles,count each wrinkle and furrow, As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day,... | |
 | John Collins - 1804 - 212 pagini
...I've worn for three score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring. Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again ; But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And with smijes count each wrinkle snd furrow, As this old worn out stuff, which is threadbare Today, May become... | |
 | 1806 - 540 pagini
...J've worn for threescore years and ten, r On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring, Nor my thread wish to spin o/er again : But my face...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; .As this old worn-out stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. RETIREMENT. AN EPISTLE.... | |
 | George Ashburner - 1807 - 238 pagini
...the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish fi) Spin aci" ajj'ii;j ) But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And...with smiles. count each wrinkle and furrow, -As this old worn out stuff which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. MUSHA GRAH WHAT WILL... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pagini
...worn for throe-score years and ten ; On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor ray thread wish to spin o'er again ; But my face in the glass I'll serenely surrey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn out stuff which is thread-bare... | |
 | 1819 - 394 pagini
...must throw off this frail covering, Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering. Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this old worn-out stuff which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow.* * [This song is... | |
 | Roundelay - 1815 - 260 pagini
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again ! But my face in the glass I'll serenely sur\ey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this old worn-out stuff which is threadbare... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pagini
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this old worn out stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. * OWEN. THo' far... | |
 | George Dixon - 1842 - 134 pagini
...must throw off this fail covering, Which Iv'e worn for years three-score and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; And this worn-out old stuff which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. THE PLEASURE... | |
 | 1864 - 640 pagini
...must throw off this frail covering, Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread...with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. UNWRITTEN. I MAT... | |
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I share what to-day may afford, And let them spread the table to-morrow. And when I at last must throw off this frail covering Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish... 
