Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — "Forever — never!... The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy ... - Page 7266by Harry Thurston Peck - 1901Full view - About this book
| England - 1851 - 786 pages
...along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door— ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! ' In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...chimney roared, The stranger feasted at his board ; Bnt, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased — • ' For ever —... | |
| Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mausion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality ; His great fires...The stranger feasted at his board : But, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, " Forever — never ! Never — forever... | |
| 1855 - 676 pages
...forever I" In that mansion used to he Free hearted Uospltallly ; HU great Ares up the chimney roared, Tbe stranger feasted at his board ; But like the skeleton...the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased—, "Foiever — never 1 Never — forever," There groups of merry children played, There youthsand maidens... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...— never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of tnerry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...Free-hearted hospitality ; His great tires up ihe chimney roared ; The stranger feasted at his board ; Bui, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-piece...groups of merry children played, There youths and maidensdreaming strayed, 0 precious hours! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 pages
...ever ! In that mansion used to be Free hearted Hospitality: His preat lires up the chimney roar*d ; The stranger feasted at his board : But, like the skeleton at the feast, The warning Time-piece never ceased, " Fur ever — neverl Never — for ever ! " There groups of merry... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...youths and maidens dreaming strayed: O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever I " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours... | |
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