 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 sider
...hand of care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick-glancirg to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sider
...of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gay I y gilded trim Quick-glancing to the Sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 sider
...of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows '. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows : The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 sider
...The insects are adding to their numbers, and the earliest swarms of bees are leaving the parent hive. The insect youth are on the wing, • - - ' Eager...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current .skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. But it frequently occurs that in our northern... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1835 - 352 sider
...could see neither heads nor feet; it seemed a ' bundle of old clouts or feathers.' ' The insect-youth are on the wing ' Eager to taste the honied spring,...Some lightly o'er the current skim, ' Some shew their gaily-gilded trim ' Quick- glancing to the sun.' GRAY. I HAVE had some curious and interesting specimens... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 sider
...the peopled air The busy murmur grows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd Spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 sider
...hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gayly gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. MILTON. THE wisest of our race often reserve the average... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 sider
...hand of care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 874 sider
...of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim. Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
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To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay... 
