 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...the feast,' That warning timepiece never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Q Never — forever!" fi There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence* of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time I Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed. O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Cycle - 1871 - 202 pages
...at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased: " Forever—never! Never—forever!" There groups of merry children played; There youths...his gold Those hours the ancient time-piece told: " Forever—never! Never—forever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
...There groups of merry children play'd, There youths and maidens dreaming stray'd ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even...Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — " For ever— never ! Never — for ever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...ere groups of merry children played, Ihere youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even...his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — - ' ' Forever — never ! " Never— forever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased: " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " VI. There groups of merry children played ; There youths and maidens, dreaming, strayed. O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 pages
...maidens dreaming stray'd. Oh, precious hours ! oh, golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! E'en as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...timepiece told,— For ever—never ! Never—for ever ! From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night I There in that silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...never ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of merry children played, Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
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In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever! 
