 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 301855Full view - About this book
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 836 pages
...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,...cheated and die; who knows ? We are ashes and dust. The feelings that have here found a voice can not be dismissed with the assertion that they are unjust... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1892 - 246 pages
...^/ssing in war on ^is own ^earthstone? Afay make my heart as a willstone, set my /ace as ay?int, C#eat and be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. When the poor are ^ovelled and bustled together, each sex, like When only the /edger fives, and when... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 pages
...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,...and be cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes arid dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1897 - 680 pages
...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;...cheated, and die ; who knows? we are ashes and dust." And if you protest and say : He rose above all that, even in that poem from which you have quoted ("... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...golden age — why not ? I have May make my heart as a millstone, set my neither hope nor trust; 30 face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die — who knows ? we are ashes and dost. IX When the poor are hovell'd and hnstled together, each sex, like swine, Peace sitting under... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 382 pages
...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,...cheated, and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust. IX Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 996 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not ? 1 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 f we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor... | |
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