...man sees a domestic paradise blighted, because " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom : And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Accident will sometimes, as Mr. Carlyle says, cause a thunderbolt to fall out of a blue sky, wrecking...

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..." is the refrain of human memory. How beautifully Holmes expresses it in " The Last Leaf " : " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed,...hear, Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." The years of the Chambers Street Theatre were fruitful in dramatic events. We have already mentioned...

...Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, — " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.2 My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose,...

...same short poem 2 the two following stanzas ;— "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. " I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches,...

...the old man, for whom all such joy is past. " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." The sorrow which proceeds from external circumstances finds ready sympathy in young minds, for they...

...verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this : " The mossy marbles reel On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And...finer than those six lines in the English language." A day or two afterward he asked me to accompany him to the temporary studio, at the Treasury Department,...

...Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, ' They are gone !' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb !" fancy and sentiment with grotesque drollery and humor. Hood, under all his whims and oddities, conceals...

...meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, And it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year Ou the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman...

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