 | 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 and maidens dreaming strayed. 0 precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...warning timepiece never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of tnerry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming...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... | |
 | 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...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!... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...feasted at his board ; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups...youths 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...feasted at his board ; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!' There groups...hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " For ever — never... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...stranger feasted at his board : But, like the skeleton at the feast, The warning Timepiece never ceased, " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups of merry children played ; There youths and maiden's dreaming О precious hours! 0 golden prime, [stray d; And affluence of Love and Time ! Even... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...feasted at his board ± But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! " There...hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — "For ever — never... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...feasted at his board ; But, bke tbe skeletons at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased — ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever !' There groups...children played, There youths and maidens dreaming stray'd : О precious hours! О golden prime, And afflnence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts... | |
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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! 
