 | Buddha - 2001 - 148 pages
...cries Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about...Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not so fast, I have been lame these four years past.... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot - 2005 - 529 pages
...Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I Hide thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm...Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not so fast, I have been lame these four years past.... | |
 | Henry Clark Warren - 2005 - 521 pages
...best, I seldom am a welcome gnest ; Bnt doa't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought yon 'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable ; Your years have ran to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not BO fast,... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 pages
...Death, "that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest ; But don't be captious, friend, at least : I little thought you'd still be able To stump about...years past." " And no great wonder," Death replies ; 84 MRS. THRALE. " However, you still keep your eyes ; And sure, to see one's loves and friends, For... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...at the best , » I seldom am a welcome guest ; » But don't be captious , friend , at least ; » I little thought you'd still be able » To stump about...length , » I wish you joy tho' of your strength, a « Hold, » says the Farmer, « not so fast, » I have been lame these four years past. » « And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...best I seldom am a welcome guest ; But don't be captious, friend, at least : I little thought you 'd s unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian...mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlant though, of your strength ! " " Hold," says the farmer, " not so fast ! I have been lame these four... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be +captious, friend; at least, I little thought that you 'd be able To stump about your farm and stable; Your years have run to a great length, Yet still you seem to have your strength," "And no great wonder," Death replies; "However, you still... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pages
...don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your form and stable : Your years have run to a great length : I wish you joy, though' of your strength !" "Hold ! '* says the farmer ; " not so fast ! I have been lame these four... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...Death, "that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest ; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and ; ta4e : Your years have run to a great length : I wish you joy, though' of your strength ! " "Hold... | |
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I know, cries Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your... 
