...recollect what Thomas Moore says on that point, in one of the sweetest lyrics in the English language: _ " Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my...never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blue eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." Passing over the poet's...

...sweet rose ! — " I knew, I kuew it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! Oh ! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. * * * * Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee,...

...for Sissy's recitation Mr. Moore's famous lines in which a disconsolate individual declares that he "never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away." After Aunt Huldah had, for several days, heard the child lamenting that she "never tamed a wild gazelle...

...— 19. Between it and the garden lies A league of grass, washed by a slow broad stream. 222—20. Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay. / is the subject. Have seen is the predicate. Decay modifies hopes. Thus and ever modify have seen....

...office witli measured steps. "It has always been the same with me," said Mr. Swiveller, "always. 'Twas ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest...away ; I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with ita soft black eye, but when it came to know me well, and love me, it was sure to marry a market-gardener."...

...will be remembered, that Moore reflects as follows : — Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree...fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad IMC witli its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sore to die ! THOMAS...

...selfishness and fear And dies collecting lumber in the rear! Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792-, 1822. Poetry:—Queen Mob, The Witch of Atlas, Prometheus Unbound, Hellas,...

...people have found in them an expression of this feeling : " Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 't was the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But...

...— to-night ! — I knew, I knew it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love...

...warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall ! 7. Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! 8. Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay. 9. Ah, me ! what mighty perils wait The man who meddles with a state. 10. Oh, gentlemen, the time of...