 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5251834Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...being here below. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven, ****** Hope,... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 578 pages
...of Pope, — " The Iamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had ho thy reason, would he skip and play f Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Amidst toils like these came forth the large flapped, weather-stained, round, and low-crowned hat,... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 580 pages
...of Pope, — " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed hii blood." Amidst toils like these came forth the large flapped, weather-stained, round, and low-crowned... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...here ' below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand jnst raised to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given That each may fill the circle... | |
 | John Shaw (M.D.) - Travel - 1857 - 324 pages
...thy riot dooms to bleed to-day — Had it thy reason, would it skip and play? Pleased to the last it crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed its blood. POPE. This ignorance of the future of Pope's lamb was not exactly applicable in my own case.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the handjust raised to shed his blood. Oh! blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...repeat : — • ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | Edward William Lewis Davies - Algeria - 1858 - 216 pages
...other in supplying him with handfuls of green clover, which he devoured as rapidly as it arrived. " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." The negroes danced in rings to the monotonous music of the torn-torn: the ox was slain, and his blood... | |
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