 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 pages
...not to have been countless times repeated. " To contemplation-s sober eye Such is the race of man, And they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay Shall flutter through life-s little day In fortune-s varying colours dressed : Brushed... | |
 | English poetry - 1859 - 128 pages
...gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man ; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brushed... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 634 pages
...the race of Man ; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors drest ; Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chilled by Age, their airy dance They leave,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...stanza, without doubt, is the penultimate : — To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man And they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1008 pages
...gayly gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors drest : Brushed... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...rising and stirring in his heart." — SOUTH. " To Contemplations sober eye. Such is the race of man ; And they that creep and they that fly, Shall end where they began." •• There flow'ry hill, Hymettni with the sound Of bees' industrious miivnmr oft invites To studious... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 302 pages
...becomes involved in ample and stately language: To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest; Brush'd by... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1906 - 414 pages
...gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 304 pages
...becomes involved in ample and stately language: To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest; Brush'd by... | |
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To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. 
