 Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age - why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.  The Irish Monthly - Page 421897Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...openly bearing the sword. Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age— why not? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. Cheat an.l be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust." And here is a portrait still closer... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...Civil war, as I think, and that of a kind The viler, as underhand, not openly bearing the sword. & Sooner or later I too may passively take the print...cheated, and die: who knows ? we are ashes and dust. » 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, "When the poor are hovell'd and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...openly bearing the 8. Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...openly bearing the 8. Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? I have neither hope nor trust; Slay make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...golden age—why not ? I have neither hope nor trust; Sooner or later I too may passively take the print May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and bo cheated, and die: who knows ? we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring... | |
 | 1855 - 812 pages
...bearing the »word. Sooner or latter I too may passively take the print Of the golden asre — why not? I have neither hope nor trust : May make my heart as a millstone, set шу lac« as a flint. Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we aro a&hes and dust." Is that poetry?... | |
 | 1855 - 808 pages
...opeuiy tearing thetword, Sooner or latter I too may passively take the print Of the golden age— why not? I have neither hope nor trust : May make my heart as a mlllstone, set my Awe as a flint. Cheat and be cheated, and dlo: who knows? we are ashes and dust"... | |
 | 1858 - 650 pages
...a languid note " — "Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat to be cheated and die : Who knows? We are ashes and dust." "We own to a small share of sympathy with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 186 pages
...openly bearing the 8. Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not t I have neither hope nor trust ; May make my heart...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
| |
