...resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the priming-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn j And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy...

...resound, As he totters o'er the ground Wife his cane. 2. 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 Through the town. 3. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan,1 And he shakes his feeble...

...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...town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks on all he meets, So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head, And it seems as if he said ' They arc gone.'...

...pnming-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. 3. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan,1 And he shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." 4. The mossy marbles...

...smiles. Who does not feel the power of this simple picture of the old man in the last-mentioned poem? " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...gone.' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb."...

...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 But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head,...

...Melvill, who was really a hero of the Tea Party. He is the " last leaf upon the tree " of Holmes's song : But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." One knows that he really was of the Tea Party because he never said he was. It is to be noted, in any...

...resound, As he totters o'er the ground Wife his cane. 2. 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 Through the town. 3. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan,2 And he shakes his feeble...

...latter, however, we see returning again. There is the pathetic silhouette of the old man, who so " Shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if he said, 'They are gone.' " • This equals the best recent knee-buckle verse, and excels most of it in simplicity. It taught...

...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...gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb....