| Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...your cduntry ; not relieve the poor of your flock, if the church is to be at any expense thereby ! 8. Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pam ! How many sink in the devouring fl6od, Or more devouring flame ! How many bleed... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours iu giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ; How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame; how many bleed,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring fiame. How many bleed,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the. devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanion, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood. Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment; death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...your country ; not relieve the poor of your fl6ck, if the church is to be at any expense thereby! 3 Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, de'ath, And all the sad variety of pafn ! How many sink in the devouring fl6od, * Or more devouring flame ! How many bleed... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ahl little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death An/1 all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How... | |
| Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot, waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many pine in... | |
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