 Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me,...  Mercedes of Castile, Or, The Voyage to Cathay - Page 111by James Fenimore Cooper - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...disconsolate. Paradise and the Peri. But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ibid. O, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I Ve seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 't was the first to fade away. Tlie I'ire-Worshipfers. I never nursed a dear ga2elle, To glad me with... | |
 | 1902 - 396 pages
...collectively, I think of that old poem — It was ever thus ; from childhood's hour I've Been my fondest hope decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. Perhaps one may think I am pessimistic on the subject, and have taken the stand regarding the grapes,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
.../«j. But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ibid. Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, 1 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
 | Helen Bayliss - 1904 - 310 pages
...her unhappy lot. uo Your Love is a Prescience of Evil " Oh ! even thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well... | |
 | 1904 - 804 pages
...have found in them an expression of this feeling : — "Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well,... | |
 | 1904 - 610 pages
...knew, I knew it could not last, — 'T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 't is past ! O, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...last, — T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 't is past! ( ). rvor thus, from childhood's hour, 1 'vo seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nursed :i dear ga/olle, To glad me with its soft black eye,... | |
 | Grace MacGowan Cooke, Alice MacGowan - 1904 - 366 pages
...for Sissy's recitation Mr. Moore's famous lines in which a disconsolate individual declares that he "never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away." After Aunt Huldah had, for several days, heard the child lamenting that she "never tamed a wild gazelle... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1905 - 524 pages
...always been the same with me," said Mr. Swiveller, "always. 'Twas ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay, I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with ita soft black eye, but when it came to know me well,... | |
 | 1905 - 648 pages
...not last, 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! " O, ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. " I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well... | |
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