 | Charles Gibbon - 1874
...eyelids closed upon the eyes. Just then beyond the courtyard pale Was heard to sing the nightingale : "The happiest lot from life they bring, The young whom death takes in the spring. ' Happy the young whose biers are strown With spring-flowers, fair and freshly blown." of which he... | |
 | Austin Clare - 1882
...and hid herself among the bushes in a passion of weeping. But the nightingale sang on overhead :— The happiest lot from life they bring, The young whom death takes in the spring." And the girl, who was so young and so fair, flung herself on the grass and sobbed : " Oh, God ! that... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893
...eyelids closed upon the eves. Just then beyond the courtyard pale Was heard to sing the nightingale : "The happiest lot from life they bring, The young whom death takes in the spring. " Happy the young whose biers are etrown With spring-flowers, fair and freshly blown. " THE COUNTRY... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1894
...nightingale sweetly sing: "The month of May is pasting e'en now, And with it the blossom' on the bough. ''The happiest lot from life they bring, The young...fall away. " Those who die ere this week is flown, A» with fresh flowers »hall be strewn ; "And from those flowers nhr.ll soar heaven-high. As from... | |
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The happiest lot from life they bring, The young whom death takes in the spring. " Ev'n as the rose drops from the spray, So youth from life doth fall away. " Those who die ere this week is flown, All with fresh flowers shall be strown ; "And from those... 