 And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.  The Country Gentleman's Magazine - Page 280by Simpkin Marshall & Co. - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...tree. And as when all the summer trees are scen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sombre hue display, Less bright than they ; But when the bare...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green; The holly leaves their fadeless hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and...wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree 1 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly-tree. And as when all the Summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly-leaves their fadeless...wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pages
...tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sombre huc display, Less bright than they ; But when the bare...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...Holly tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display, Less bright than they ; But when the bare...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Tom (uncle, pseud) - 1852 - 368 pages
...age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And, as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly-leaves their fadeless...Less bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry wood we see, What then so cheerful as the holly- tree? So. serious should my youth appear among The... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 236 pages
...trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sombre hue display, Less bright tlran they ; Hut when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree? 80 serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...are seen So bright and green; The holly leaves their fadeless hue display Less bright than they, Bat when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree 1 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among... | |
 | Birds - 1853 - 192 pages
...upon the holly tree. And, as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless hues display Less bright than they...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng; So would I seem, amid the young and... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 322 pages
...Tree. 6. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young... | |
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