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" Forever — never! Never — forever!" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece... "
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 206
1851
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 786 pages
...yonths and maidens dreaming strayed: O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time 1 Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told — • For ever — never ! Never— for ever ! ' All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 32

1850 - 464 pages
...youths and maidens dreaming strayed. 0 precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came...
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 9

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed, Oh, precious hours ! O, golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white The bride came forth...
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" Prom that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding-night ; There, in that...
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The Soul's welfare, Volumes 1-3

1850 - 642 pages
...and maiden's dreaming О precious hours! 0 golden prime, [stray d; And affluence of Love and Time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the Ancient...Timepiece told, " For ever— never ! Never— for ever Г From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth for wedding dight ; There, in that silent...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night ; There, in that silent...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 794 pages
...tame commentary on human life. At the fifth verse, as it stands in our qnotation, the old clock qnite forgets his character of monitor, and occupies himself...description as the text of his poem, it was worth the anthor's pains to carry it ont with a certain distinctuess and unity. Considering the tact and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 856 pages
...Ли clock means by the solemnrefraiu, "Forever—never! Never —for ever !" When at the last verse its " ever— never." " Even as a miser counts his...description as the text of his poem, it was worth the author's pains to carry it out with a certain distinctness and unity. Considering the tact and...
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