 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...thy fearful symmetry ? THE FLY. OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKINU our or TEE AUTHOR'S CUP. William Oldys. BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer ; mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear... | |
 | Eleanor Smith - Music - 1908 - 204 pages
...Bus- y, on -rious, thirst -y fly, Drink with me and drink aз I. Free - ly wel -come to my cup.Couldst thou sip and sip it up. Make the most of life you may : Life is short and wears a - way. Scale of At> Major ' ^-~5=^=5=g_ Relative Harmonic Minor 9 Relative Melodic Minor -;; gi Melody... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...oaths when she 's severe, But break them when she's kind. J. OLDMIXON. 705. BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...In physic, stolen goods, or love, As he himself could, when above. ]. Swift 404. On a Fly . "DUSY, curious, thirsty fly! *-* Drink with me and drink...are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline: 744 . Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore. Threescore summers, when they're... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...oaths when she's severe, But break them when she's kind. J. OLDMIXON. 705. BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine 'sa summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 172 pages
...work, if you wait, you. will find the place Where the four-leaf clovers grow. TO A FLY WILLIAM OLDYS BUSY, curious, thirsty Fly, Drink with me, and drink...short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hast'ning quick to its decline, — Thine's a summer; mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore,... | |
 | Jean Dawson - Hygiene - 1914 - 368 pages
...innocent fly," and a stanza of a little poem that he had been taught in the third grade came to his mind : Busy, curious, thirsty Fly, Drink with me, and drink...most of life you may ! Life is short and wears away. " Surely the man who wrote that did not know that flies carry disease, or maybe the flies have changed... | |
 | Richardson Little Wright - Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1914 - 424 pages
...began to swish her dust cloth over the top of the lowboy, singing, to a tune of her own invention, " Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I Freely welcome to my . . . " Phew ! " She crouched and rubbed the stubby claw-feet of the lowboy. " Freely welcome to my... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1915 - 420 pages
...It has almost the simplicity of Blake, — and certainly something of the same kind of philosophy. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike arc mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline; Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated... | |
 | Mark Sullivan - Essays - 1915 - 428 pages
...apparently he did not, and even regarded the fly with some affection. We find the following lines: Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink...most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. They are attributed to WILLIAM OLDYS, antiquary, bibliographer, and librarian, who was born in 1696... | |
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up: Make the most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline: Thine's a... 
