 A lost thing could I never find, Nor a broken thing mend; And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend? I will gather and carefully make my friends Of the men of the Sussex Weald;...  The Living Age - Page 951916Full view - About this book
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 360 pages
...When over the sea she flies ; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...mend : And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend ? I will gather and carefully... | |
 | Thomas Caldwell - 1922 - 432 pages
...When over the sea she flies ; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...mend : And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend ? I will gather and carefully... | |
 | Theodore Maynard - 1922 - 270 pages
...acknowledging his mortality. And in a similar mood of sweet sorrow does "The South Country" draw to an end. A lost thing could I never find, Nor a broken thing mend: And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will be there to comfort me Or who will be my friend? I will gather and carefully... | |
 | George Nauman Shuster - 1922 - 392 pages
...Country" sings the praise of Sussex with a haunting refrain through which peers the melancholy of life: "A lost thing could I never find, Nor a broken thing mend: And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will be there to comfort me Or who will be my friend?" This looks far off from... | |
 | Charles Vince - 1922 - 188 pages
...who did not attempt to say more than could be said in very plain and simple words, and who wrote, — And along the sky the line of the Downs So noble and so bare. For it is so that you remember them, as something single, and complete, and very clear. It is because... | |
 | Hilaire Belloc - 1923 - 184 pages
...When over the sea she flies ; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...mend : And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend ? I will gather and carefully... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...When over the sea she flies; 30 The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...never come on a belt of sand But my home is there. 36 And along the sky the line of the Downs So noble and so bare. A lost thing could I never find, Nor... | |
 | Aline Kilmer - 1923 - 120 pages
...will understand that with me it was an incurable affliction. With me such things are irremediable. "A lost thing could I never find, Nor a broken thing mend." I knew at once that the only thing for me to do was to buy another house. So I began my search. Diligently... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1924 - 308 pages
...When over the sea she flies; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...thing mend: And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend? I will gather and carefully... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1924 - 750 pages
...When over the sea she flies; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex...thing mend: And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be .my friend? I will gather and carefully... | |
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