 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
 | Education - 1859 - 396 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...wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-Tree Î — So, serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 574 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? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ! So would I seem amid the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...Holly-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...wintry 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,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 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...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,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 278 pages
...And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly-leaves a sober hue display But when the bare and wintry 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Agricultural chemistry - 1860 - 360 pages
...fresh and green, it is then of easy solution. The moisture of the earth assists the fermentation ' When the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree?" — SOCTHEY. and decomposition ; and the juices being preserved in the soils become the... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1861 - 144 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...But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then BO cheerful as the holly tree ? So, serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So... | |
 | Popular poetry - English poetry - 1862 - 246 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 P So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem, amid the young... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless lines 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... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their fadeless lines 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... | |
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