| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...farmer, "not so fast ! I have been lame these four vears past." "And no great wonder," Death replies : "However, you still keep your eyes; And sure to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms would make amends." "Perhaps," says Dodson, "so it might, But latterly I 've lost my sight." " This... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
..." not so fast ! I have been lame these four years past." " And no great wonder," Death replies : " However, you still keep your eyes ; And sure, to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms would make amends." " 1'erhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, But latterly I 've lost my sight" "This... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 pages
...farmer, "not so fast! I have been lame these four years past." "And no great wonder," Death replies: " However, you still keep your eyes ; And sure, to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, But latterly I 've lost my sight" " This... | |
| Aesopus - 1878 - 378 pages
...farmer, " not so fast, I have been lame these four years past." " And no great wonder," Death replies, " However you still keep your eyes, And sure to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps," says Dobson, " so it might, But latterly I 've lost my sight." " This... | |
| Imperial pocket reader - 1878 - 202 pages
...farmer, "not so fast ! I have been lame these four years past." " And no great wonder," Death replies : " However, you still keep your eyes ; And sure to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, But latterly I've lost my sight." " This... | |
| 1881 - 602 pages
...farmer, not so fast: I have been lame these four years past.1' "And no great wonder," Death replies, However, you still keep your eyes; And sure, to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." "I'crhaps," says Dobson, "so it might; But latterly I "vo lost my sight." "This... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...farmer, " not so fast! I have been lame these four years past." "And no great wonder," Death replies: " o feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh would make amends." " Perhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, But latterly I've lost my sight." " This... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...However, you still keep your eyes ; And sure, to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms would make amends.' ' Perhaps,' says Dobson, ' so it might...latterly I've lost my sight.' ' This is a shocking story 'faith ; Yet there's some comfort still,' says Death : ' Each strives your sadness to amuse :... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...sure, to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms would make amends. " "Perhaps," says Dodson, "so it might, But latterly I've lost my sight. " " This is a shocking tale, 't is true; But still there's comfort left for you: Each strives your sadness to amuse ; I wan-ant... | |
| William Moffatt (publisher) - 1883 - 182 pages
...farmer, "not so fast ! I have been lame these four years past." " And no great wonder," Death replies : " However, you still keep your eyes, And sure, to see...and friends, For legs and arms must make amends." 8 " Perhaps," says Dobson, " so it might ; But latterly I've lost my sight." " This is a shocking story,... | |
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