 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 887 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
...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 - 1899 - 960 pages
...why not TI have ...[»• n. ir trust ; 3<> f Bihi my heart ax n millstone, set Cheat and be eheated, and die— who knows ? we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days irone by, When the poor arc hovell'd and hus tied together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 325 pages
...wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. PEACE OR WAR ? [From " Maud."] PEACE sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hoveled and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - 1908 - 713 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1902 - 637 pages
...passively take the print Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make mv heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, C"heat...knows? we are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under lier olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 335 pages
...too may passively take the print Of the golden age—why not ? I have neither hope nor trust; 30 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 When the poor are hovell'd and hustled... | |
 | 1903 - 363 pages
...is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? "'eace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days ( '...hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, wyhen only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie ; Peace in her vineyard — yes ! — but... | |
 | E. C. Moffett - 1903 - 222 pages
...crusade. The late Poet Laureate contrasting an ignoble peace with a just and glorious war says:— " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie ; Is it peace or war ? better, war ! loud war... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1905 - 287 pages
...his own hearthstone ? We are made to see the inglorious peace in which men seek only their own ease. Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are ho veil" d and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not... | |
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