 | Edward Young - 1802 - 412 str.
...ev'ry joy ! Thought, busy thought ! too busy for my peace 1 Thro' the dark postern of time long laps'd, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing Past-, In quest of wretchedness... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 402 str.
...ev'ry joy ! Thought, busy thought! too busy for my peace! Thro' the dark postern of time long laps'd, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing Past; In quest of wretchedness perversely... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 str.
...ev'ry joy ! Thought, busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Thro' the dark postern of time long laps'd, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing Past; In quest of wretchedness perversely... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 str.
...ev'ry joy ! Thought, busy thought! too busy for my peace! Thro' the dark postern of time long elasp'd, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer (and such it proves!) Strays (wretched rover!) o'er the pleasing past: In quest of wretchedness, perversely... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 str.
...joy ; Thought, busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Through the dark postern of time long elapsed, Led softly by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer (and such it proves \) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 302 str.
...joy ! Thought, busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Thro' the dark postern of time long Iaps''d, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover ! ) o'er the pleasing Past : In quest of wretchedness... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 str.
...ev'ry joy ! Thought, busy thought! too busy for my peace! Through the dark postern of time long laps'd, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led, like a murderer, and such it proves ! Strays (wretched rover ) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness perversely... | |
 | 1838 - 884 str.
...life ? '* Thought, busy thought, too busy for my peace, Through the dark postern of Time long elapsed, Led softly by the Stillness of the night, Led like a murderer " And whom is, he going to murder? God knows. But his hand is palsied, for he " meet* the ghoiU Of... | |
 | Edward Young - 1817 - 372 str.
...joy ! Thought, busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Through the dark postern of time long elapsed, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness... | |
 | 1832 - 614 str.
...Thought — busy Thought — too busy for my peace — Through the dark postern of Time long elapsed, Led softly by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer meets the Ghosts Of my departed joys." There is here a dim and sepulchral life breathed into the Thought... | |
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Through the dark postern of time long elapsed, Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness perversely strays ; And finds all desert... 
