 | James Edward Hand - Great Britain - 1899 - 544 pages
...those who live to be old are most to be pitied — " Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | James Edward Hand - 1899 - 538 pages
...those who live to be old are most to be pitied — " Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...vain, With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain.'7 Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the mom, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn:— "... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1905 - 568 pages
...taunts, of lazy poor complain (1). Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, 200 His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft hear him murmur to...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...task in vain, With ruthless taunts of lazy poor complain. Oft may you see him when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks, and bury them in snow ; When roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn. " Why... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - Clergy - 1907 - 596 pages
...reluctantly find a job, with food and sixpence a day 1 : Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, 1 Sydney, The Early Days of the Nineteenth Century in England, London, 1898, pp. 51-2. 1 Village,... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - Clergy - 1907 - 600 pages
...Simon Lee, shows us the scanty labour that these worn-out old men could still perform. II When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn — jfrWhy do I live, when I desire to be A i once from life and life's long labour free ? " Why live,... | |
 | Florence Anne MacCunn - Authors, Scottish - 1909 - 488 pages
...peasants of the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. " Oft may you see him when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage, and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn." Such... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - English literature - 1910 - 656 pages
...vain, With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, zoo His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken edge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...taunts, of lazy poor complain. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, 200 His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft hear him murmur to...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
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O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn: ' Why do I live, when I desire to be 'At once from life and life's long labour free? 
