 Cheat and be 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 together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 339by University magazine - 1855Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 650 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, 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 - 188 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, Cheat and be cheated, and die : who knows 1 we are ashes and dust. 9. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 1116 pages
...too may possibly take the print x 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." Cheat and be cheated and die ! Poor Turner, was not such his fate? Had he known — " How sublime a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age — why not VI 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... | |
 | 1862 - 692 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 censor's pen runs scathingly along these stanzas on the trail of the crimes of a vicious prosperity,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 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... | |
 | 1863 - 494 pages
...introduction to " Maud," published some eight years ago, he thus enumerates our evil deeds : — " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovelled and hustled together each sex, like swine; When only the ledger lives, and not only all men... | |
 | Caspar Butz - 1864 - 594 pages
...gcijjelt bie «Reujeit, тс(фе mit grieben praí)tt, roä^renb ber Ärieg an jebem Jpau$b,eerb fiCt: Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd und hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie... | |
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