| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...tloir, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So tlwm, to thine, an ornament W»s kovn< 3*7 Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains,...Th' ungrateful 'ground we till with fruitleis pains, la Ubour'd furrows low the choice of wheat, And, over empty (heaves, in harveft fweat, A thin increafe... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...silver show, And silvery streams to grace the meadows flow, As corn the vales, and trees the hills merous verse, More tuneable than needed lute or harp To add more sweetness ; didst quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitless pains, In labour'd furrows sow... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...silver show, And silvery streams to grace the meadows flow, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So thou, to thine, an ornament was born. Since thou, delicious youth, didst quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitless pains, In labour'd furrows sow... | |
| Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Country life - 1895 - 368 pages
...silver show, And silvery streams to grace the meadows flow, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So thou, to thine, an ornament was born. Since thou, delicious youth, didst quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitless pains, In labour'd furrows sow... | |
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