 | 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... | |
 | Luiz Eugenio de Moraes Costa - English language - 1920 - 144 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim -Quick-glacing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly But flutter thro''íifé's little day, In Fortune 's varying 'coloúrs ,drest : Brush'd by the hand... | |
 | William Nelson, Charles Anthony Shriner - Paterson (N.J.) - 1920 - 472 pages
...assistance of bundling — Wedding days — The bringing up of the next generation — Funeral customs. 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 colours drest : Brush'd by the hand... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1921 - 360 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 colours dressed : Brushed... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1921 - 360 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 colours dressed: Brushed... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...interested in Man, if not in men, and after describing the insects, he continues : 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... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 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 thro' life's little day. In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 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,...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 : Brush... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - English poetry - 1924 - 300 pages
...the great ! He sees, to be sure, the bright-colored swarms of insects, but To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man; And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Soon, either through accident or age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. So, too, had Thomson... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1926 - 206 pages
...the current skim, Some shew their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.f To Contemplation's /Such is the race of Man : / And they that creep,....fly, / Shall end where they began. / ' Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, | In fortune's varying colour^jirest'T^ Brush'd... | |
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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. 
