 | Clara Linklater Thomson - English poetry - 1914 - 82 pages
...bough, Then his first joy, but his sad emblem now. " Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep. His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep, Oft hear...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... | |
 | Crabbe - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 492 pages
...taunts, of lazy poor complain. Oft may you see him, when 'ie tends the she^p, 200 His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep; Oft hear him murmur to the...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 : —... | |
 | 568 pages
...taunts, of lazy poor complain(1). Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, 100 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 literature - 1783 - 742 pages
...in vain, With ruthlefs taunts of lazy poor complain. Oft may you fee him when he tends the flieep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep . Oft...murmur to the winds that blow O'er his white locks, and hury them infoow; When rouz'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy... | |
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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? 
