 | 1860 - 300 pages
...life from aches and ails, Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights and scales! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile Where Art weeds out from bed... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...life from aches and ails : Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile Where Art weeds out from... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...life from aches and ails : Those grand specifics Nature gave "Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open to the skies ; Man locks him in a stifling lab-, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...our tempered poisons save Some wrecks of life from aches and ails ; Those grand specifies Nature gave God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile Where Art weeds out from... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...life from aches and ails; Those grand specifies Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! shine, SONGS IN MANY KEYS. Where Art weeds out from bed to bed j Whose song to-night in every sky... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 396 pages
...life from aches and ails ; Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent His creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile Where Art weeds out from... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 596 pages
...life from aches and ails; Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile i Where Art weeds out from... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 410 pages
...life from aches and ails; Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! shine, SONGS IN MANY KEYS. Where Art weeds out from bed to bed The plagues we planted by the mile... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 362 pages
...life from aches aiul ails; Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open to the skies ; Han locks him in a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 314 pages
...life from aches and ails ; Those grand specifics Nature gave Were never poised by weights or scales ! God lent his creatures light and air, And waters open...a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies ! In vain our pitying tears are shed, In vain we rear the sheltering pile Where Art weeds out from... | |
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God lent His creatures light and air, And waters open to the skies ; Man locks him in a stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies... 
