 | Percy Society - 1846 - 410 sidor
...this popular song say, " From an Old Ballad." The editor has not been able to meet with the original. A COUNTRY life is sweet! In moderate cold and heat,...fairest of flowers Adorning the bowers, And every meadow now ; To that, I say, No courtier may Compare with they Who clothe in grey, And follow the useful... | |
 | Percy Society - 1846 - 410 sidor
...this popular song say, " From an Old Ballad." The editor has not been able to meet with the original. A COUNTRY life is sweet! In moderate cold and heat,...fairest of flowers Adorning the bowers, And every meadow now ; To that, I say, No courtier may Compare with they Who clothe in grey, And follow the useful... | |
 | James Henry Dixon - 1846 - 424 sidor
...this popular song say, " From an Old Ballad." The editor has not been able to meet with the original. A COUNTRY life is sweet! In moderate cold and heat,...fairest of flowers Adorning the bowers, And every meadow now ; To that, I say, No courtier may Compare with they Who clothe in grey, And follow the useful... | |
 | Percy Society - 1846 - 400 sidor
...this popular song say, " From an Old Ballad." The editor has not been able to meet with the original. A COUNTRY life is sweet! In moderate cold and heat,...fairest of flowers Adorning the bowers, And every meadow now ; To that, I say, No courtier may Compare with they Who clothe in grey, And follow the useful... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 sidor
...heaven a-fled, Where no pain is a-known, and no tears are a-shed. W. Barnes XXII THE USEFUL PLOUGH A country life is sweet ! In moderate cold and heat,...flowers adorning the bowers, And every meadow's brow ; So that I say, no courtier may Compare with them who clothe in grey, And follow the useful plough.... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 72 sidor
...first, then barley, and then oats. So wheat ripens first, then barley, and oats last. THE USEFUL PLOUGH. A country life is sweet, In moderate cold and heat,...pleasant and fair, In every field of wheat, The fairest flowers adorning the bowers, And every meadow's brow; Conrpare with them who clothe in grey, So that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 216 sidor
...to find what satisfaction and amusement he could in his coloured pictures. K THE USEFUL PLOUGH, l. A country life is sweet ! In moderate cold and heat, To walk in the stir, how pleasant and fair, In every field of wheat. The fairest of flowers adorning the bowers, And... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1867 - 140 sidor
...ground; and he begins the fight who strikes the second blow. 116 THE USEFUL PLOUGH. THE USEFUL PLOUGHA COUNTRY life is sweet! In moderate cold and heat,...flowers adorning the bowers, And every meadow's brow; So that I say, no courtier may Compare with them who clothe in gray And follow the useful plough. They... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1870 - 170 sidor
...difficult matter to rescue him from her jaws, that she was compelled to have her shot. THE USEFUL PLOUGH. A COUNTRY life is sweet ! In moderate cold and heat,...flowers adorning the bowers, And every meadow's brow ; So that I say no courtier may Compare with 'them who clothe in grey, And follow the useful plough.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sidor
...and hardship, joy and sadness, — Slow the plant to ripeness lead. JOHN STEKLI!» THE USEFUL PLOUGH. ter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the...Who sate in the high places and slew the saints * ; So that I say, no courtier may Compare with them who clothe in gray. And follow the useful plough.... | |
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A country life is sweet ! In moderate cold and heat, To walk in the air, how pleasant and fair, In every field of wheat, The fairest of flowers adorning the bowers, And every meadow's brow ; So that I say, no courtier may Compare with them who clothe... 
