 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
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 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... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 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...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 among... | |
 | Leigh Page - Flowers - 1868 - 296 pages
...pale yellow : ' When all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly's 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 ?' Yes, bright and cheerful does the holly render our Christmas-time, brought in with the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Tree. 30 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, 35 What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 274 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...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... | |
 | 1869 - 878 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...hues display Less bright than they ; But when the hare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they, Eut 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 young... | |
 | Elizabeth Warren - 1870 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 pages
...tree. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, Holly leaves their sober hue display Less bright than they ; But when the bare...woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree P A TRAGIC STORY. 87 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng; So would I seem,... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pages
...holly-tree. " As when all tho summer trees are seen So bright and green. The holly leaves n sober 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 amid... | |
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