 The bolder squirrel labors through the day. Both thieves alike, but provident of time, A virtue rare, that almost hides their crime. Then let them steal the little stores they can, And fill their granaries from the toils of man ; We've one advantage where...  The Connecticut Wits - Page 337edited by - 1926 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 pages
...crime. Then let them steal the little stores they can, And fill their gran'ries from the toils of man; We've one advantage where they take no part,— With...pine ; This envied boon to man shall still belong, Unshar'd by them in substance or in song. At last the closing season browns the plain, And ripe October... | |
 | Seymour fict. family - 1824 - 926 pages
...crime. Then let them steal the little stores they can, And fill their gran'ries from the toils of man; We've one advantage where they take no part— With...their wiles they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty Pudding; here we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine; This envied boon to man shall still... | |
 | Joel Barlow - 1838 - 24 pages
...let them steal the little stores they can, And fill their granaries from the toils of man ; We 've one advantage where they take no part,— With all...their wiles they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty Pudding; here we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine ; This envied boon to man shall still... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...graineries from the toils of man : We've one advantage where they take no port. With all their wile* they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty-Pudding;...we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine ; This envyed boon to man shall still belong, Unshared by them in substance or in song. At lost the closing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...squirrel labours through the day. Both thieves alike, but provident of time, .. . r JOEL BARLOW. 27 We've one advantage where they take no part — With...their wiles, they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty Pudding ; here we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine ; This envied boon to man shall still... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...crime. ; Then let them steal the little stores they can, And fill their granaries from the toils of man; We've one advantage where they take no part — With...their wiles, they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty Pudding; here we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine ; This envied boon to man shall still... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...they take no part—- With all their wiles, they ne'er have found the art To boil the Hasty Pudding ; here we shine Superior far to tenants of the pine ; This envied boon to man Khali still belong, Unshared by them in substance or in song. At last the closing season browns the... | |
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