 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...spare, O spare thine evening meal, And sweet shall be thy sleep ! RHYME OF THE EAIL.— JOHN G. SAXE. through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting...Buzzing o'er the vale, Bless me ! this is pleasant, Killing on the rail ! Men of different stations In the eye of fame, Here are very quickly High and... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...spare thine evening meal, And sweet shall be thy sleep I RHYME OF THE RAIL.— JOHN G SAM. SINSINO through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting...through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale, Bless me 1 this is pleasant, Riding on the rail I Men of different station* In the eye of fame, Here are very... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1869 - 322 pages
...lawyer was drowruZed, because He could not keep his head above water I9 EHYME OF THE RAIL, BINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting...arches. Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountain^. Buzzing o'er the vale,— Bless me 1 this is pleasant,, Riding on the Rail ! Men of different... | |
 | Benjamin Glazier Willey - Carroll County (N.H.) - 1870 - 322 pages
...appointments as a parlor," enjoy all the pleasures ascribed by the poet to " Riding on a rail," — " Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges,...Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale," — and presently he is set down at the very base of the mountains themselves on the eastern side.... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...her basket ; Feeling that a smash, If it came, would surely Send her eggs to pot, Rather prematurely. I this is pleasant, Riding on the rail ! JOHN G. SAXE. THE RAIL. I MET him in the cars, Where resignedly... | |
 | Paul Reeves - 1872 - 236 pages
...me ; Asks about the distance, says it's tiresome talking, Noises of the cars are so very shocking ! Singing through the forests, rattling over ridges,...through the mountains, buzzing o'er the vale ; Bless me ! Ihis is pleasant, riding on a rail ! THE LAND THAT GAVE US BIRTH.— Hotl. Joseph Holt. Next to the... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - American poetry - 1873 - 516 pages
...her basket ; Feeling that a smash, If it came, would surely Send her eggs to pot Rather prematurely ! Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges,...Buzzing o'er the vale ; Bless me ! this is pleasant, THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER. A BALLAD. AN Attorney was taking a turn, In shabby habiliments drest ; His... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...are such as thou describest them. Thou mayst drive on." RHYME OF THE RAIL. BY J. GODFREY SAXE. INGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting...o'er the vale — Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding en the Rail ! Men of different " stations'' In the eye of Fame Here are very quickly Coming to the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...her basket ; Feeling that a smash, If it came, would surely Send her eggs to pot, Rather prematurely. e thy matin o'er moorland and lea I Emblem of happiness, Blest Biding on the rail ! JOHN G. SAXE. THE RAIL. I MET him in the cars, Where resignedly he sat ; He was... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...some visitor,"! muttered, " tapping at my chamber-door— Only this, and nothing more."—Poe, 49. Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges,...arches, Rumbling over bridges; Whizzing through the mountain, Buzzing o'er the vale, Bless me! this is pleasant, Biding on the rail! — Saxe. The green... | |
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SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale, — Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding on the Rail ! Men of different ' stations ' In the eye of Fame,... 
