 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 pages
...Poor race of Men !" said the pitying Spirit, Dearly ye pay for your primal fall — Some flowerets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all ! " She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there 'sa magic... | |
 | Nona Maria S. Bellairs - 1859 - 920 pages
...— you look down upon us from your exalted position and say with the Peri — " ' Poor race of men, Dearly ye pay for your primal fall, Some flow'rets of Eden ye may inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.' " He spoke with a half sneer that caused... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...Floods Dance round the cradle of their Nile, And hail the new-born Giant's smile. " Poor race of men I " said the pitying Spirit, Dearly ye pay for your primal...Fall — Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there's a magic... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...covering of clay, so strong to will, so feeble to endure. Poor sons of men said the pitying sp,rit, Dearly ye pay for your primal fall, Some flow'rets...its general adherence to chivalrous principles, when maddencd hт jealousy and revenge, Doctor Doran quotes a hideous tale from Gallentja's History of Piedmont,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pages
...wretch, who meets The glaring of those large blue eyes™ Amid the darkness of the streets .' ' Poor race of men !" said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay...inherit, " But the trail of the Serpent is over them all !" ; "That beautiful bird, with plumage of the finest shining blue, with purple beak and legs, the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 428 pages
...wretch, who meets The glaring of those large blue eyesi3i Amid the darkness of the streets ! " Poor race of men ! " said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay...inherit, " But the trail of the Serpent is over them all ! ' She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there's a magic... | |
 | Mrs. Bayly (Mary) - Working class - 1861 - 262 pages
...intended to promote in every way the happiness of the human race ? But, alas for poor humanity ! " Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all." Had sin never entered, we should still have had service ; for even in glory one star differeth from... | |
 | Garth Rivers - 1861 - 306 pages
...CHAPTER I. MAUD. "' Poor race of men,' said the pitying spirit, ' Dearly ye pay for your primal fall j Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.'" THE June sun blazed gloriously that fine afternoon over the far-stretching woods and meadows of Forrestrange... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
..." Poor race of men !" said the pitying spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal fall; Some flowerets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all." But man, forgetful of his Maker's grace, No less than angels whom ho did ensue, Fell from the hope... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 pages
...Strange beast." W. 314. Him who sang Of " Zeinab's son" the wild and wondrous song. 1. "'Poor race of men,' said the pitying spirit, Dearly ye pay for...flowrets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the evil one withers them all." 2. " Heroes and Kings, obey the charm. Withdraw the proud, high-reaching... | |
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said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal Fall — Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all! 
