 | 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 timepiece told — • For ever — never ! Never— for ever ! ' All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead... | |
 | 1850 - 464 pages
...skeletons at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths...his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...never ! Never— forever!" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidensdreaming strayed, 0 precious hours! 0 golden prime, And affluence...as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient lime-piece told— " Forever — never ! Never— forever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...groups of tnerry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even...his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 pages
...groups of merry children play'd ; There youths and maidens, dreaming, stray 'd ; О precious hour« ! О golden prime, And affluence of Love and Time ! Even...as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient Time-piee-j told, 41 For ever — never ! Hover— forever!" JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY. From that chamber,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pages
...skeleton at the feast, That warning time-pece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed, Oh, precious hours ! O, golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased,— " 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...merry children played ; There youths and maiden's dreaming О precious hours! 0 golden prime, [stray d; And affluence of Love and Time ! Even as a miser counts...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever I " There groups of merry children played, There youths 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... | |
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In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever! 
