 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where 'wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or... | |
 | Arthur William A'Beckett - 1867 - 360 sidor
...parties all, And early bed o'ertops the bygone ball, And trembling, lest they last should join the band, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where working men increase and swells decay, Leaguers and roughs may flourish... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand., Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! Princes and brds may flourish, or... | |
 | Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - 1904 - 292 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 sidor
...the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, so Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | 1910 - 542 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | 1910 - 524 sidor
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
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Where wealth, accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 
