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The Family Library (Harper). - Page 124
1847
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Representative English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson: Selected and ...

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 pages
...inevitable chill of regret creeps into the sunshiny lyric of May day, and his laughter ends in a sigh. " Come, let us go, while we are in our prime ! And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short...
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Choice English Lyrics

James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks picked: — yet we're not a Maying. — Come, let us go, while we are in our prime ; And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short...
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Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick, Ed

Robert Herrick - 1895 - 284 pages
...; Many a jest told of the key's betraying 55 This night, and locks pick'd, yet w'are not a-Maying. Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace and die Before we know our liberty. 60 Our life is short,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pages
...firmament: Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks pick'd :—yet we're not a Maying. —Come, let us go, while we are in our prime ; And take the harmless folly of the time! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short ;...
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The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 434 pages
...firmament: Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks pick'd : yet we 're not aMaying. Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short,...
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English Pastorals

Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 pages
...firmament; Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks pick'd, yet we 're not a-Maying. Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short,...
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Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1896 - 334 pages
...Many a jest told of the keys betraying 55 This night, and locks pick'd :—Yet we're not a Maying. —Come, let us go, while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. 60 Our life is short...
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Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria: Selected and Edited with Notes and ...

Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...firmament: Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks pick'd :—Yet we're not aMaying. —Come, let us go, while we are in our prime ; And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short;...
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In My Lady's Name: Poems of Love and Beauty

1896 - 468 pages
...firmament : Many a jest told of the key's betraying This night, and locks pick'd : yet we 're not aMaying. Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pages
...Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night, and locks pick'd : — yet we're not a Maying. — Come, let us go, while we are in our prime ; And take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short...
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