Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek the heaven above And the road below me. Works: The master of Ballantrae - Page 610by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896Full view - About this book
| Ernest Frederic Pierce - 1907 - 308 pages
...see Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There 's the life for ever. " Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me ; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below... | |
| Ernest Frederic Pierce - 1907 - 308 pages
...late, Let what will be o'er me ; Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me ; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me." He mouthed it finely, with a toss of the head here and... | |
| Readers - 1925 - 584 pages
...stars to see, Bread I dip in the river, There's the life for a man like me! There's the life forever! Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...a friend to know me ; All I ask, the heaven above Pat Magee's Wife BY LENA HARRINGTON. In "Longman's Magazine." Livin' wid Pat Magee, In a cabin foment... | |
| American poetry - 1909 - 358 pages
...afield I linger, Silencing the bird on tree, Biting the blue finger. White as meal the frosty fieldWarm the fireside haven — Not to autumn will I yield, Not to winter even ! Let what will be o'er me ; Give the face of earth around, And the road before me. Wealth I ask not, hope... | |
| English literature - 1910 - 356 pages
...to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek the heaven above And the road below me.... | |
| Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...of earth around, And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me ; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below... | |
| Lady Anne Campbell Wilson - British - 1911 - 436 pages
...be enjoyed, that in short, you are On the Road, this surely is pure and unadulterated bliss ! 395 ' Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...of earth around, And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me ; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me.'... | |
| Alexander Hume Ford, George Mellen - Hawaii - 1912 - 714 pages
...Maybe you know it; it's in that book." The young man lifted his glass and the trader recited slowly: " 'Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around, And the sea before me' — "He has it 'the road before me,' " explained the trader, "but that doesn't matter."... | |
| Readers - 1912 - 584 pages
...stars to see, Bread I dip in the river, There's the life for a man like me! There's the life forever! Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above Pat Magee's Wife BY LENA HARRINGTON. In "Longman's Magazine." Livin* wid Pat Magee, In a cabin foment... | |
| American poetry - 1915 - 416 pages
...to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er...Give the face of earth around And the road before me. In the Highlands 1627 Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven... | |
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