 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force give Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might : Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right. But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn, Then age and want, oh !... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's aetive might; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right: But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then age and want — oh ill-matched pair I— " A few seem favourites of fate, In pleasure's... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force give Nature's law, That Man was made to mourn. Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; — Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right: But see him on the e,dge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then age and want, oh... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...Licentious passions burn, Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. " Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right ; — But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then Age and Want... | |
 | Household song - 1861 - 72 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right : MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN. But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. " Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right : But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then Age and Want —... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force give Nature's law, That Man was made to mourn. Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right. But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn, Then age and want, Oh !... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 pages
...Licentious passions burn ; Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. " Look not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might ; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported is his right : But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then Age and Want% —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...manhood's active might: Man then is useful to his kind, Look not alone on youthful prime, Supported is his right . But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn, Then age and want, oh! ill-matched pair Show man was made to mourn. A few seem favorites of fate,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1863 - 142 pages
...poor people, to whom the well-known lines of Scotland's inspired ploughboy no longer apply : — " But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn ; Then age and want— oh ! ill-match'd pair ! — Show man was made to mourn." BURNS. The oak... | |
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O Man ! while in thy early years, How prodigal of time ! Misspending all thy precious hours, Thy glorious youthful prime ! Alternate Follies take the sway, Licentious Passions burn, Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That Man was made to mourn. 
