John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| A. E. Housman. (1859–1936) |
| 8140 |
| Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy years a score, It only leaves me fifty more. |
| Loveliest of Trees. |
| 8141 |
| When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say: “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away.” |
| A Shropshire Lad. |
| 8142 |
| To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. |
| To an Athlete dying young. |
| William Roscoe Thayer. (1859– ?) |
| 8143 |
| You shall not change, but a nobler race of men Shall walk beneath the stars and wander by the shore; I can not guess their glory, but I think the sky and sea Will bring to them more gladness than they brought to us of yore. |
| Man in Nature. |
| Nixon Waterman. (1859– ?) |
| 8144 |
| No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands. |
| Interludes. |