 How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise, Who wears his manhood hale and green: And dare we to this fancy give, That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, scarce had grown The grain...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 2321861Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...least one last parting ! and always would want it again — of course. On Stanza LIII. : — LIU. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live ? Oh, If we held the doctrine sound For life outliving heats of youth, Yet who wquld preach, it as... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...flecks of sin. Abide : thy wealth is gathered in, When Time hath sunder 'd shell from pearl.' LI. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...wears his manhood hale and green : And dare we to this doctrine give That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, had not grown The grain by... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...of sin. Abide : thy wealth is gathered in, When Time hath sunder 'd shell from pearl.' LI. LII. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...wears his manhood hale and green ; And dare we to this doctrine give That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, had not grown The grain by... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...flecks of sin. Abide : thy wealth is gathered in, When Time hath sundered shell from pearl." lib How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...wears his manhood hale and green ; And dare we to jtiis doctrine give, That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, had not grown The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...flecks of sin. Abide: thy wealth is gather'd in, When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' LII. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live ? Oh, if we held the doctrine sound For life outliving heats of youth, Yet who would preach it as a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...flecks of sin. Abide : thy wealth is gather 'd in, When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' in. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live ? Oh, if we held the doctrine sound For life outliving heats of youth, Yet who would preach it as a... | |
 | Ireland - 1852 - 432 pages
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 | Ireland - 1852 - 892 pages
...late Marquess of Hertford, and we believe in the truth of Alfred Tennyson's lines : — •• How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...wears his manhood hale and green : And dare we to this doctrine give That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, had not grown The grain by... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 234 pages
...flecks of sin. Abide : thy wealth is gather'd in, When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' LII. How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his...scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live t Oh, if we held the doctrine sound For life outliving heats of youth, Yet who would preach it as a truth... | |
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