And learn what suicide's history can tell. Ask what does most the stream of victims swell, And truth shall answer with a look forlorn — " INTEMPERANCE, greatest curse since Adam fell ; " Parent of ills, perdition's eldest born ; " Dark cloud without... Woodnotes of a Wanderer - Seite 125von John Ramsay - 1851 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Ramsay - 1852 - 288 Seiten
...Frail mortal, dwell not on the why, or how, " Behold all fair, and filled with good to thee, " And all that lives and moves, in earth, in air, and sea."...Dark cloud without a bow — a night that knows no v. Beyond yon shadow on the welkin's verge, At memory's call, past scenes salute the eye ; The long... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1856 - 354 Seiten
...act in an unconscious state. Intemperance, the suicide of the soul, is the rife parent of the other ! Go, search the hospital's unwholesome round, The felon's...cloud without a bow — a night that knows no morn. * ESQUIROL' s analysis of 132 cases of Mania, gives 18, orl in 11 to drunkenness •which is double... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1857 - 350 Seiten
...rounJ, The felon's dungeon, and the maniac's cell, The workhouse cold, the church-yard's dreary monnd, And learn what Suicide's history can tell. Ask, what...swell ? And Truth shall answer, with a look forlorn — INTEMPEKAKCF, greatest curse since Adam fell, Parent of ills, Perdition's eldest born : — Dark... | |
| John Ramsay - 1871 - 136 Seiten
...round, The felon's dungeon and the maniac's cell, The workhouse cold, the churchyard's dreary moun And learn what suicide's history can tell. Ask, what...cloud without a bow, a night that knows no morn." TAM SAMSON. RURNS'S cronie, familiarly called "Tam Samson," followed the business of nursery and seedsman... | |
| John Ramsay - 1871 - 136 Seiten
...round, The felon's dungeon and the maniac's cell, The workhouse cold, the churchyard's dreary moun And learn what suicide's history can tell. Ask, what...cloud without a bow, a night that knows no morn." TAM SAMSON. BURNS'S cronie, familiarly called "Tam Samson," followed the business of nursery and seedsman... | |
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