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" The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. "
The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: Rokley; a poem - Page 149
by Walter Scott - 1813
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 8

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...the adjoining forest; and after being plundered had, with difficulty, crawled to the castle gate. ' The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.' The orphan soon recovered his gaiety ; accepted and returned the caresses of his adopted father; became...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 8

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...being plundered had, with difficulty, crawled to the castle gate. ' The tear, down childhood's chec4; that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose; , ....breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry." The orphan soon recovered his gaiety; accepted and returned the caresses of his adopted father; became...
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The Halcyon Luminary, and Theological Repository, Volume 2

1813 - 594 pages
...consciousness display'd ! Lover ! seize the fleeting meteor, Catch the rainbow ere it fade. CHILDHOOD. The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer's breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. THE COQUETTE REPKOVEB. " Tis strange...
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Jokeby, a Burlesque on Rokeby: A Poem, in Six Cantos

John Roby, James Kirke Paulding - English poetry - 1813 - 240 pages
...following couplets ; The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop oa the roie ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Rokeby. MORTON. NOTE III. Now tome, a good name to destroy, Found ottt a mother/or the boy; At modest...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1842 - 634 pages
...I trust, a gracious God will give them harvest blessings." Walter Scott says, truly, " The tear on childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose: When next the summer hreeze goes by, And shakes the bush, the flower is dry. Our little folks therefore now felt as joyous...
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Modern manners; or, A season at Harrowgate

1817 - 692 pages
...for, as Walter Scott beautifully describes it, » • * " The tear down childhood's cheek that florvs, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes 1>u And waves the bush, thefl0tver ^ >» And these were the only tears, except as the woes of others...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 342 pages
...his failing strength Just bore him here — and then the child Renew'd again his moaning wild. XI. The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like...dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Won by their care, the orphan child Soon on his new...
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The London Magazine

1828 - 746 pages
...cheek. Truly has it been said— . “ The tear down childhood's cheek thst flows, Is like the r*in.drop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, - And waves the bush, the flower is dry ! “ ¿ ¿. And a most benevolent provision of Nature it is, that thus it should be ! If a heart were...
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The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ...

1825 - 424 pages
...deprivations but one cup the less in life's banquet : " The tear down childhood's cheek that flows ia like the dew-drop on the rose, When next the summer...breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry." Well, then, " Black Monday" is not so very terrible, and yet I am afraid I shall fail in inducing its...
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Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's ..., Volume 1

Robert Grenville Wallace - India - 1825 - 342 pages
...the still more classical expression of the same natural thought, by Sir Walter Scott, in Rokeby: " The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next die summer-breeze comes by And shakes the bush, the flower is dry." .. . . The charms of childhood,...
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