 I can count them bone by bone, The leaves are open and spread But I see the teeth of the land, And hands like a dead man's hand, And the eyes of a dead man's head. There's nothing but cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have...  What the Judge Thought - Page 88by Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
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...cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have fed, And the summer's empty and cold ; Over valley and wold Wherever I turn my head There's a mildew and a mould, The sun's going out over head, And I 'm very old, And Tommy's dead. What am I staying for, boys, You 're all born and bred,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Love poetry - 1858 - 420 pages
...rat and the mouse have fed, And the summer's empty and cold ; Over valley and wold, Wherever I tuni my head, There's a mildew and a mould ; The sun's going out over head, And I 'm very old, And Tommy's dead. What am I staying for, boys? You're all born and bred—... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 838 pages
...us forget that a hundred years hence many of our legal decisions will appear just as childish to oui great-grandchildren as these are to us. I could match...golden age, and even have dreams of regret for the far -gone past when Courthand and Latin were the letters and language of our law. One dreads these... | |
 | Sydney Thompson Dobell - 1860 - 558 pages
...cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have fed, And the summer's empty and cold ; Over valley and wold Wherever I turn my head There's a mildew and a mould, The sun 's going out over head, And I 'm very old, And Tommy 's dead. What am I staying for, boys, You... | |
 | Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 pages
...and sand ; The rat and the mouse have fed, And the summer is empty and cold ; Over valley and wold, Wherever I turn my head, There's a mildew and a mould ; The sun's going out over head, And I'm very old, And Tommy's dead. What am I staying for, boys? You're all born and bred... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
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 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
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 | Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - Art - 1875 - 596 pages
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 | Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - Art - 1875 - 362 pages
...fitting pendant to No. 88, "Loot, 1797," AC GOw, another phase of war. No. 89. - Over valley and wold, Wherever I turn my head, There's a mildew and a mould...; The sun's going out overhead, And I'm very old, 123 T 1(7 1(6 125 GALLERY I 129 1-55-1-53—149—M8-r rt-42I No. 101. No. 101. " The Bearers of the... | |
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...cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have fed, And the summer's empty and cold; Over valley and wold Wherever I turn my head There's a mildew and a mould, The sun's going out over head, And I 'm very old, And Tommy's dead. What am I staying for, boys, You 're all born and bred,... | |
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