 Tis not long since, — it cannot be long, — My years so soon were spent, Since I was a boy, both straight and strong, Yet now am I feeble and bent. A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream ! A strange, sad dream, good sooth ; For old as I am, and old...  Tupper's Complete Poetical Works ... - Page 260by Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
 | P. Garrett - American literature - 1910 - 872 pages
...Since I was a boy, both straight and strong; But now I am feeble and bent. A dream, a dream — it is all a dream! A strange, sad dream, good sooth ;...sung, How buoyant and bold, though it seem to grow old Is the heart forever young! Forever young — though life's old age Hath every nerve unstrung; The... | |
 | Wilbur D. Osgood - 1913 - 110 pages
...is the most golden period of a life consecrated to Him who bought us with His most precious blood. "Eye hath not seen— tongue hath not told And ear hath not heard it sung, How buoyant and fresh — though it seems to grow old, Is a heart forever young." WORDS BY AS CLARK. Another birthda.7... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1873 - 636 pages
...ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men. " A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream, — A strange, sad dream, good sooth...not heard it sung, How buoyant and bold, though it seems to grow old, Is the heart forever young. " Forever young, — though life's old age Hath every... | |
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