 | 1883 - 172 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try — And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. 4291... | |
 | Stow (Mass.) - 1883 - 36 pages
...comfortable, intelligent cultivators of the soil, illustrating the couplet: "Blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of eaae." The state census of 1855 gives 1485 as the population of Stow, from which it lost more than... | |
 | New England - 1896 - 864 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these. A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits the world, where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly !... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong tempta lions try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly! For... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American poetry - 1885 - 446 pages
...friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine. How blessed is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! So on... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...friend to life's decline! Retreats from care that never must be mine — How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly 1 For... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease ; 100 Who quits a world where strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly... | |
 | 1887 - 410 pages
...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try— And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For... | |
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! 
