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" SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again. The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime Ere the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round... "
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society - Page 436
by Illinois State Historical Society - 1922
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The Harbinger: A May-gift

Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn As he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut htm itm-, ii, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. ' But now he walks...And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...a bettor man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. ' Rut now ho walks the street!, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes h ¡я feeble hoad That it »oetns us if ho unid, ' They arc gone." 1 The mofliy marblei reit On the...
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The Book of the Months: A Gift for the Young

Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Tune Cut him down, Not a better man was found, By the Crier on his round Through the town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, ' They are gone ! ' " The...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the...gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb....
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...that in his prime, Ere the priming-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he mrcts So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The...
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Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy...
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Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 36

American periodicals - 1850 - 594 pages
...the town. ' But now he walks the streets, And ho looks on idl he meets Bnd and wan, And he shakes hi* feeble head, That it seems as If he said, ' They are gone.' ' The mossy marbles rut On Ac lips Out he km prest In their Moom, And the names he loved to hear Have teen carved for many...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 36

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1850 - 624 pages
...his round Through Hie town. ' But now ho walks the streets, And he looks on all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, •They ore gone.' ' Tht mofsy marbles rest O^ the lilts that he has jtrfst In their bltHtm, Ami the names...
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