...skies are clear and grass is growing. —Ibid. PRICE. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest has his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the devil's booth are...

...skies are clear and grass is growing. —Ibid. PRICE. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest has his fee who comes and shrives us. We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the devil's booth are...

...with its benedicite ; And to our age's drowsy blood Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking : 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had...

...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. » Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, 9. In allusion to Wordsworth's " Heaven lies about us in our infancy," in his ode, Intimations of Immortality...

...price for what Earth gives us ; j. " Sflrejbeggar is taxed for a corner to die in, c >¥h»Jipriest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain...lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, 25 Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, 9. In allusion...

...that cringe and plot We Sinais climb, and know it not. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us : At the devil's booth are all things sold: Each ounce...we pay ; Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking ; 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God can be had for the asking. No price is set on...

...Hayes. LOWELL AT HOME IN 1874. " Earth gets ite price for what earth gives M The beggar Is taxed (or a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives as. We bargain (or the graves we He in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, K»c,h ounce o(...

...the grandest things in the world are free, as Lowell sings in the opening of " Sir Launfal " : — " At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking ; No price is set on the...

...our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrive.4 us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...

...remember that wonderful verse of James Russell Lowell's: "Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest has his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the devil's booth are...