 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...To be no better than a homely swain: To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they...up the year; How many years a mortal man may live. When this is knows, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1990 - 552 pages
...better than a homely swain; To sit upon the hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many make the hour full complete . . . How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend... | |
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Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point... 
