 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5251834Full view - About this book
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...admiration, " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...helow? The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his hlood. Oh ! hlindness to the future ! kindly gtv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1857 - 302 pages
...being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven. Hope humbly... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future I kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | John Stewart - 1808 - 330 pages
...•'-.•-'• " Behold the lamb, thy riot dooms to-day ; Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.1" These visitations do not so often occur now as in former times, nor is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand jnst rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...ingeniously upon the properties of heat, while the fire is kindling to roast him and hi$ family ; " Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais d to shed his blood." We are fully convinced that Mr. Woodward has the disorder naturally ; and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Ob blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
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