 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise - 1896 - 620 sidor
...I had read before, and lines of it have continued to float in my memory ever since, particularly " To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post haste, But he'll be dead before. " This roused a vivid picture in my mind of a youth riding across... | |
 | 1898 - 524 sidor
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he'l! be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the new year... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 920 sidor
...to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry fjuips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he '11 be dead before. Kvery one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - 1899 - 330 sidor
...die : We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old Year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New Year blithe and bold, my friend, Comes up to take his own.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 344 sidor
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year blithe and bold, my friend, Comes up to take his own.... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 672 sidor
...; We did so laugh and cry with you, 25 I've Haifa mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste 30 His son and heir doth ride posthaste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 460 sidor
...He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste 30 His son and heir doth ride posthaste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the new year blithe and bold, my friend, 35 Come up to take his own.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 392 sidor
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year blithe and bold, my friend, Comes up to take his own.... | |
 | 1900 - 646 sidor
...his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post haste, Bat he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New Year blithe and bold, my friend. Comes up to take his own.... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 sidor
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. . T. Coates starry and cold, my friend, And the New year blithe and bold, my friend, Comes up to take his own.... | |
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He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before. 
