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" And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. "
Sargent's School Monthly, for Home and School Use - Page 142
1859
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Reading Book

1864 - 422 pages
...Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. And, as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly leaves their...
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Emblems and Poetry of Flowers ...

Flowers - 1864 - 206 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, AH vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 288 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly-tree. 5. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some...should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly-tree. 6. And as, when all the summer trees are Been So bright and green, The Holly-leaves a sober hue display...
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The Juvenile Verse and Picture Book

Juvenile verse and picture book - 1866 - 130 pages
...high leaves upon the holly-tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness shew, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should he Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and...
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Roses and Holly. A Gift-book for All the Year

Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...Reserved and rude ; — Gentle at home amid my friends I 'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know. Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober...
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Scenes of the olden time, by the author of 'Records of noble lives'.

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 160 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tre«. 1 " And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree." — SOUTHIV. One of the ordinary concomitants of a Christmas in the olden times was the...
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Scenes of the Olden Time

William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1867 - 160 pages
...at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. " And should my youth, 88 youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree." — SOUTHEY. One of the ordinary concomitants of a Christmas in the olden times was the...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, 25 Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 30 And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober...
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Friends Intelligencer: A Religious and Family Journal, Volume 25

1869 - 878 pages
...— To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And...know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities, I, d«y by day, Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I 'd be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. 5. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness shew, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be...
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