You slay them all! and wherefore? for the gain Of a scant handful more or less of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched up at random by industrious feet, Searching for worm or weevil after rain ! Or a few cherries, that are not so sweet... Tales of a Wayside Inn - Seite 196von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 225 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 Seiten
...song. " You slay them all ! and wherefore ? for the gain Of a scant handful more or less of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched...these ? Do you ne'er think Who made them, and Who The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought ? Whose household words... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 254 Seiten
...of song. " You sky them all ! and wherefore ? for the gain Of a scant handful more or less of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched...you ne'er think what wondrous beings these ? Do you iie'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters... | |
| Elihu Burritt - 1864 - 386 Seiten
...not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." SHELLEY'S "SKYLARK." " Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these ? Do...made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, whose melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought ? Whose household words are songs in many keys,... | |
| Elihu Burritt - 1864 - 370 Seiten
...not Drops BO bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." SHELLEY'S "SKYLARK." " Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these ? Do...made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, whose melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought ? Whose household words are songs in many keys,... | |
| washington: Government Printing Officee - 1865 - 778 Seiten
...scant handful, more or less, of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched up at randem by industrious feet, Searching for worm or weevil,...are the songs these uninvited guests , Sing at their feasts with comfortable breasts." But the farmers were inexorable ; they preferred the discord of the... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - 1865 - 768 Seiten
...heaven." " You slay them all ! and wherefore ? For the gain Of a »cant handful, more or less, of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched...feet, Searching for worm or weevil, after rain ! Or a low cherries, that are not so sweet As are the songs these uninvited guests Sing at their leasts with... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 Seiten
...more or less of wheat, Or rye, or harley, or some other grain. Scratched up at random by indu,trious feet, Searching for worm or weevil after rain ! Or...are not so sweet As are the songs these uninvited gue.tSing at their feast with comfortable breasts. "Do you ne'er think what wondrj::beings these? Do... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 Seiten
...wherefore ? for the gain Of a scant handful more or less of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Searching for worm or weevil after rain ! Or a few cherries, that are not so sweet As are the songa these uninvited guests Sing at their feast with comfortable breasts. " Do you ne'er think what... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 Seiten
...of song. " You slay them all! and wherefore ? for the gain Of a scant handful more or less of wheat, Or rye, or barley, or some other grain, Scratched up at random by industrious feet, As are the songs these uninvited guests Sing at their feast with comfortable breasts. " Do you ne'er... | |
| 1867 - 978 Seiten
...•' And shall we kill the birds, and only for the gain Of a scant handful more or less, of grain ? Or a few cherries, that are not so sweet As are the songs these uuivitcd guests Blng at their feasts with comfortable breastft ?'' The bird and the snare placed for... | |
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