 | Literature - 1907 - 570 pages
...to lack some of the enticing aspects of his prose writings. For example, 'The Vagabond,' beginning: Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me,...Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me, has almost exactly the qualities that are to be felt in his essays, Walking Tours,' ' ^Es Triplex,'... | |
 | Katharine Burrill - 1907 - 252 pages
...me." " The Invitation to the Road " never ceased ringing in the ears of Robert Louis Stevenson — " Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me ; Give the jolly heaven above And the highway nigh me." "There are hills beyond Pentland and lands beyond Forth." True, but are there such... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Childhood - 1907 - 124 pages
...meal the frosty field — Warm the fireside haven — Not to autumn will I yield, Not to winter even! Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of tarth around, And the road before me. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me. All... | |
 | Readers - 1925 - 584 pages
...Some say Chasper, Some say Snitz; So I dink I Call him Fritz. The Vagabond BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Give to me the life I love; Let the lave go by me; Give the jolly heaven above And the highway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river, There's the life for... | |
 | Sheila Kaye-Smith - English fiction - 1909 - 404 pages
...successful. It is impossible to resist its striking appeal. Founded on Stevenson's wellknown verse: ' Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river — There 's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever,' it combines the rugged life of... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - New York (State) - 1910 - 234 pages
...gasp for air and space in the confined walls of cities. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread 1 dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life forever. The only time of the day when our spirits began to fail was toward its close, when the shadows... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - New York (State) - 1910 - 234 pages
...intolerable to them is a roof, and how literally they gasp for air and space in the confined walls of cities. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river — [160] There's the life for a man like me, There's the life forever. The only time of the day when... | |
 | John Downie Falconer - Nigeria - 1911 - 384 pages
...of Nassarawa province and the headquarters of the provincial guard. CHAPTER III THE BAUCHI PLATEAU " Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in...life for a man like me, There's the life for ever? A bush camp — A trader's zungo — A deserter — Christmas Eve — Market day at Jaginde — The... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...and play the game ! " Henry Newbolt, " The Island Race ". cxxx THE VAGABOND (From "Songs of Travel") Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heavens above, And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river —... | |
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GIVE to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. 
