 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Yet, hark ! how, through the peopled air, The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing,1 Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's soher eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 pages
...panting herds repose : Vet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring,...their gaily-gilded trim Quick -glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, In Fortune's... | |
 | 1859 - 128 pages
...of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man ; And they that creep,... | |
 | 1859 - 116 pages
...are the Proud, How indigent the Great? Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds repose : Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man ; And they that creep,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 pages
...sight of honey-dew. Dame's school — I love " too much" better than " enough," as little Edward says. Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glaiicing to the sun." Ode on the Spring. 1 Malcolm Laing, author of a History of Scotland from... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 pages
...Still is the toiling hand of Care , The panting herds repose; Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The insect 'youth are on the wing, Eager to taste...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. 4 To Contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of Man,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pages
...hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the purple air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilden trim Quick-glancing to the sun." This, as the reader knows, is by Gray, and very elegant,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Shall end where they began. Alike the busy... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...of care, The panting herds repose — Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep,... | |
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To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay... 
