Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. The Book of Humorous Poetry - Seite 2201867 - 464 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Swinton - 1887 - 686 Seiten
...all we value here wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. 75 In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truthj (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it. — You're welcome. — No extra charge.) 9.... | |
| Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 Seiten
...of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So...truth. (This is a moral that runs at large; Take it. — You 're welcome. — No extra charge.) FIRST OF NOVEMBER — the Earthquake-day — There are traces... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 596 Seiten
...here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer, In fact there is nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. It is, then not surprising that at this age, There are traces of age in the one-boss shay, A general... | |
| Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 Seiten
...then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So...welcome.— No extra charge.) FIRST OF NOVEMBER,— the Earthquake day,— There are traces of age in the one-boss shay. A general flavor of mild decay, But... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So...Earthquake-day. — There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local as one may say. There could n't be,... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth. So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (1. 73-77) 8 The parson was workinghis Sunday's text, — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed... | |
| Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 Seiten
...The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and the truth. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Happiness, like youth and health, is rarely appreciated until... | |
| Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 Seiten
...of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So...the Earthquake-day. There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local as one may say. There couldn't be,... | |
| Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 Seiten
...of all we value here Wakes on the dawn of its hundredth year Without both looking and feeling queer; In fact there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth."1'"' But, turning from the old tree, something yet more venerable and more widely revered is... | |
| Wendy Pullan, Harshad Bhadeshia - 2000 - 218 Seiten
...we value here, Wakes on the morn of its hundreth year, Without both feeling and looking queer. . . . FIRST OF NOVEMBER, - the Earthquake-day, There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay, A general flavour of mild decay. But nothing local, as one may say. And yet, as a whole,... | |
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