 And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end,...  Gateway - Page 191908Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall. Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained. The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore. And made me creep past! No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pages
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it aH. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past, No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1881 - 548 pages
...the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon is gained, The reward of it all. I waa ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last ! I wonld hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbear And bade me creep past. No, let me taste the whole... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 302 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...fighter, so, — one fight more, The best and the last ! would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past o! let me taste the whole... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 306 pages
...thanks the sultry heaven Over all the blossoming : If to stammering some are given, BOOK OF PARADISE. I WAS ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...breast; its splendor soon or late, Will pierce the gloom: I shall emerge one day ! " " Fear death P— " I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the lastl " For,— " Not alone wlien life flows still do truth And power emerge, hut also when strange... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
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