 For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,...  Marmion - Page 7by Walter Scott - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...They sleep with him who, sleeps below : And, if thou mourn' st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pages
...Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, when wanted motit ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound i And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 280 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last long rest. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last long rest. {ere, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...o'er Fox's tomh. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When hest employed, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And all the reasoning powers divine, Te penetrate, resolve, comhine; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, lVhen best employed , and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and love profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And...They sleep with him who sleeps below: And , if thou mourn' st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And sacred he the last long rest. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings;... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 pages
...of such a man, the mind almost involuntarily adopts the moral lesson of the poet} We "Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound, And feelings keen, and fancy's glow — They sleep with him who sleeps below/ i DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ' d, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And1 sacred be the last long rest. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 332 pages
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...They sleep with him who sleeps below : And, if thou moum'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd,... | |
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