 | Illustrated songs - 1858 - 170 str.
...it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose : But all our fond care to preserve them is vain ; Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then I '11 not be proud of my youth or my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade ; 13ut gain a good... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 str.
...yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Tho' they bloom, and look gay, like the rose; For all our fond care to preserve them is vain; Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then let's not be proud of our youth, or our beauty, Since both of them wither and fade; But gain a good... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 str.
...will yield ! 3 So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose : But all our fond care to preserve them is vain ; Time kills them as fast as he goes. 4 Then I '11 not be proud of my youth or my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade : But gain a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 str.
...Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond cares to preserve them is vain, Tune kills them as fast as he goes. Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade ; But gain a good name by well doing my duly ; This... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 str.
...youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond cares to preserve them is vain, Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade ; But gain a good name by well doing my duty ; This... | |
 | William M'Gavin (editor of The union school song garland) - 1862 - 82 str.
...it will yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose; But all our fond care to preserve them is vain, Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then 111 not be proud of my youth and my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade; But gain a good name,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 str.
...the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose; But all our fond cares to preserve them is vain, Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade; But gain a good name by well doing my duty; This... | |
 | 1864 - 422 str.
...yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty of man, Tho' they bloom, and look gay, like a rose ; Yet all our fond care to preserve them is vain, Time kills...my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade, But grain a good name by well doing my duty; This will scent like a rose when I'm dead — Watts. MIGRATION... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 210 str.
...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! 3. So frail is the youth and the beauty of man, Though they bloom and look gay like a rose ; But all...them is vain, Time kills them as fast as he goes. 4. Then I '11 not be proud of my youth, or my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade ; But gain... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 str.
...youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond cares to preserve them is vain. Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then I'll not be proud of my youth nor my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade ; But gain a good name by well doing my duty; This... | |
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Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead and its fine colours lost, Still, how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look... 
