 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping... | |
 | 1900 - 676 pages
...distance was the Yardley Oak commemorated by Cowper, now majestic in decay : — Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined. Only a mile or two distant from Yardley Hastings was Easton Maudit, where Bishop Percy,... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...in which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says: — " It was once a bauble; a cup and ball Which babes might play with; and the...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs,... | |
 | 1900 - 614 pages
...distance was the Yardley Oak commemorated by Cowper, now majestic in decay : — Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball Which babes might play with; and the...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined. Only a mile or two distant from Yardley Hastings was Easton Maudit, where Bishop Percy,... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 494 pages
...which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says : — " It was once a bauble ; a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with case might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...The yew, however, has long been supposed to exceed the oak in longevity. " Thou wert a bauble once— a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay. Cowper, always exquisitely tended aud natural, writes a beautiful little biography Thy Jet Ci08c.folded... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 pages
...upon Yardley Oak, which was supposed to have existed before the Normans : " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rams Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle; and a skipping... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...passages, as expressive of the vigor and inspiration of true poetic genius. Thou wnst a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jav, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The nuburn nut that held thee, swallowing down... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...with; and the thievkh Seekino; her food, wiih ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held ihee, in sorrow than in anger— more proud, perhaps, and more awful than ever—-but with t as a gulp! But fate thy growih decreed ; autumnal rains, Beneath thy parent tree, mellpw'd the soil... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 pages
...shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and...thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellowM the 8oil Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. 
