 | College students' writings, American - 1902 - 524 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : ' In the afternoon...pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours." But surely it... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1901 - 484 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : ' In the afternoon...granite, and beholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramid? And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around... | |
 | 1887 - 708 pages
...labours of my siras, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon...pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours. This is a particularly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon...pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours. BOOK II.— In... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1888 - 612 pages
...labors of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : " In the afternoon...pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire, addressed its evening hours." 62 BO OK NEWS.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1893 - 364 pages
...sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper Ifyf a child. "But rather say : In the afternoon of time...beholding far *Along the sounding coast its pyramids ^nd tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Ground the fire... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1893 - 360 pages
...sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper lil(ea child. "But rather say : In the afternoon of time...from its hands The sand of granite, and beholding far Jflong the sounding coast its pyramids ^tnd tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content,... | |
 | English poetry - 1893 - 322 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands Tlu sand of granite, and beholding far ' ', Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon...pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours. 151 BOOK II IN... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon...family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and heholding far Along the sounding coatt its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled... | |
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SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The... 
