 | 1826 - 310 ページ
...knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their harrow oft their stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! Howbow'd the woodsbeneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 ページ
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, ! Their homely... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 ページ
...climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 ページ
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 ページ
...climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 ページ
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did.... How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 ページ
...his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 ページ
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 ページ
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield. Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 ページ
...knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubbom glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe... 
