 | Baptists - 1856 - 790 pages
...of insects sporting in the summer's sunbeam for a day and then gone. 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, Rut flutter through life's little day. In fortune's varying colours drest; Rrushed... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath the...sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors dressed ; Bruised... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's soher eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they hegan. Alike the husy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 30 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 35 But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1907 - 448 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... | |
 | 1908 - 376 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 30 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 35 But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest; Brushed... | |
 | English poetry - 1908 - 464 pages
...skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim 30 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. 35 Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest:... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Democracy - 1909 - 168 pages
...Some lightly o'er the current f kim, Some mew their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the fun f. To Contemplation's fober eye J Such is the race of...creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. * « Nare per aeftatem liquidamVirglL Gtorg. lit. 4. t fporting with quick glance Shew to the fun their... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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... | |
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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. 
