 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | Henry D. Capers - 2006 - 624 pages
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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 pages
...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 labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
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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... 
