 | 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...current 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,...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... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1915 - 420 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. CHAPTER XV ON BIRDS IN ENGLISH POETRY THE poetry of birds is quite important, for it happens to contain... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1916 - 802 pages
...iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. (6) To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man : And they that creep...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... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim 30 Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober 35 Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune 's varying colors drest... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 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, Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors dressed:... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...wind. And snatch a fearful joy. 1051. THOMAS GRAY (1716-71), Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. They that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began. 1052. THOMAS GRAY (1716-71), Ode on the Spring. 1053. They that go down to the sea in ships, that do... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1920 - 314 pages
...Listen to this of Gray's. He has described the insect youth upon the wing : To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man; And they that creep,...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 drest; Brushed... | |
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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. 
