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" The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some... "
Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse: Written in the Time of the Civil Wars ... - Page 158
by Samuel Butler, Sir Roger L'Estrange - 1715 - 279 pages
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 2

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 528 pages
...Death luys his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. " Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 49

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 pages
...Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Volume 6

James Shirley - 1833 - 540 pages
...lays his icy hand on Icings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made fFtth the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the fold, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame...
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 2

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 518 pages
...Death hiys his icy hand1 on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. "Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular ...

William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field , And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame hut one another...
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The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1

1835 - 378 pages
...Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another...
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The songs of England and Scotland

England - 1835 - 794 pages
...Death lays his icy hands pn kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. ! Some men with swords may reap the field And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked seythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; " '204 SHlRLEY. They tame...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked seythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But thcir strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another...
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The Carthusian, Issue 1

1837 - 574 pages
...Death lays his icy hand on Kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another...
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