 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 pages
...1o7 sqq.: "But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be pass'd." praadicament... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy shines fair, Sister Helen, On the Lady of Ewern's ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...at last. 0 blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must bo mine. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy d Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pages
...at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy human life to endless sleep: Thus is Nature's vesture wrought To instruct 100 Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly!... | |
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Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the... 
