 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore For the nmoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we build...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ! Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall wo build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which...they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas ! 't is in vain... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 15 Shall we build to the purple of Pride— The trappings...; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, 19 But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas! 'tis in vain; Who hid,... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here "s neither dress... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...purple of Pride ? To the trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long...winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud To Riches ? Alas, 't is in vain ! Who hid, in their turns have been hid: The treasures are squandered again ; And here... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - Religious literature - 1872 - 380 pages
...worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple...allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the sliroud To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain — Who hid, in their turns have been hid — • The treasures... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For ong that free flag tost Î To the trappings which dizen the proud Î Alas I then they arc all laid aside, And here's neither... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 pages
...before — . Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? alas I 'tis in vain — Who hid, in their turn... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tin twhich #S F s W" Z mP [ R<1̲= ) VF 6 h ? g-` ixV@~ iy lk vA :5`i kd adornments allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Biches ? Alas Г 'tis... | |
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In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore... 
