| Meta Lander - 1900 - 578 pages
...And is there not always this mingling in human life, according to the old song of Meg Merrilles? ( Twist ye, twine ye, even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and bliss and strife, In the mystic thread of life. It was early in December, and the rough weather gave... | |
| John Ruskin - 1903 - 724 pages
...pearl on every scale. [Not hitherto printed, see preceding note.] "TWIST YE, TWINE YE"1 Twist ye, tuine ye ! even so Mingle shades of Joy and Woe, Hope and...life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infants life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo ! what varied shapes attending! Passion's... | |
| John Ruskin - 1903 - 712 pages
...scale. [Not hitherto printed, see preceding note.] "TWIST YE, TWINE YE"1 Twist ye, twine ye ! even do Mingle shades of Joy and Woe, Hope and Fear, and Peace and Strife, In t/ie thread of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant's life beginning, Dimly... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...green. Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. From n'averley. 1814. TWIST YE. TWINE YE ! EVEN SO l dare to discover some province, some gift of my own. There's a faculty pleasant to exercise, ha VJii the thread of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning. And the infant's life beginning,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1907 - 498 pages
...afterwards attempted the following paraphrase of what, from a few intelligible phrases, he concluded to be its purport : — Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle...peace, and strife, \ ; In the thread of human life. 1 The outline of the above description, as far as the supposed ruins are concerned, will be found somewhat... | |
| Walter Scott - 1909 - 992 pages
...Michael and his spear, Keep the house frae reif and wear. Chap. in. THE SPINDLE SONG. (By MEG MERRILIES.) TWIST ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy...life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, JLo, what varied shapes attending ! Passions wild, and follies vain, Pleasures soon exchanged for pain... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...silent sign, And both, alas! take flight. WS Landor 629. Twist Ye, Twine Ye! """TWIST ye, twine ye I even so, Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear and peace and strife, Is the thread of human life. While the mystic twist in spinning, And the infant's life beginning, Dimly... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. From M'aivrley. 1814. TWIST YE. TWIXE YE ! EVEX SO rshipped, except the currency : Swear not at all ;...Thine enemy is none the worse : At church * : Honor Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending 1 Passions wild and follies vain,... | |
| International Kindergarten Union - Kindergarten - 1910 - 266 pages
...modification of a poem by Walter Scott, though, as usual, no credit is given : — The Spindle. I wist ye, twine ye, even so, Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, fear, peace and strife, In the thread of human life, While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant's... | |
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