| 1870 - 462 pages
...grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to day, 15 Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan—• E'en such is man; who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life, and death.... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1870 - 496 pages
...newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearlM dew of May, . Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, — E'en such is man, who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...! Like to the grass that's newly sprung. Or like a tale that 's new begun, Or like the bird that 's raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, singing of a swan, — E'en such is man ; — who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and... | |
| Abraham Lansing - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 634 pages
...remember that— " Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of...May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan,— E'en such is man;—who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death.... | |
| Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...man — he dies ! Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of...May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, E'en such is man ; who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death. —... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...— he dies. 2 Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of...May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, — E'en such is man, who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death.... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...Like to the grass that 's newly sprung, Or like a tale that 's new begun, Or like the bird that 's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan; Even such is man, who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death. The... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Like to the grass that 's newly sprung, Or like a tale that 's new begun, Or like the bird that 's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, — E'en such is man ; — who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and... | |
| Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...man he dies. " Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of...May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, E'en such is man, who lives by breath ; Is here, now there, is life and death. The... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pages
...consumes,—the man he dies. Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of...May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan, E'en such is man;—who lives by breath, Now here, now there, in life and death.—.... | |
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