 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours dressed : Brushed... | |
 | Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...something or you wouldn't be there,' and so I bring 'em all in guilty " :— To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Bearing on short reckonings, it is said that the following notice is posted in an hotel in Montana.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Democracy - 1909 - 168 pages
...the Grotto. Dod/lcy's Mi/eel lanits, Vol. Vp 161. Alike Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours dreft : Brufh'd by the hand of rough Mifchance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in duft to reft. Methinks I hear in accents... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and...they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...bless'd, who ne'er was born. 8358 Prior: Solomon. Bk. iii. Line 240. To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began, Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day. 3359 Gray : Ode. On the 8pring. St. 4. Like... | |
 | George Frederick Abbott - English essays - 1911 - 344 pages
...flporoif d-jraart KarQaveiv 6<f>ei\erai. As the Poet has said : — " To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began." And yet — and yet I cannot find it in my heart to part from my friend for ever without a last cry... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - English poetry - 1911 - 300 pages
...every prose-writer since the world began — the thought of the equality of Death : — 'Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...current skim, Some shew their -gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by... | |
 | American poetry - 1915 - 416 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors dressed: Brushed... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 508 pages
...skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim zj Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. 30 Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors drest... | |
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To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. 
