 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...Secundus was then alive — Snuffy old drone from the German hive I That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so browc, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...Sccundus was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down ; And Braddock's...without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake day That the Deacon finished the one-hows shay. 3. Now, in building of chaises, I tell you... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...Secundus was then alive — Snuffy old woman from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down ; And Braddock's...brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on that terrible earthquake day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay. Now, in building of chaises,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...hundred and fifty-five. Qeorgius Secundvs was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive ! That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open...Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a srailp to its crown. It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss-shay.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...hundred and fifty-five. Gciiryius Sccun^iis was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. ing, and look brighter when we come ; 'T is sweet...be awakened by the lark, Or lulled by falling water hrown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...Secundus was then alive — Snuffy old drone from the German hive t That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down ; And Braddock's army was done so brown Left without a scalp to itsjcrown. It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the oue-Aoss shay. 8, Now,... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 pages
...hundred and fifty-five : Gcorriiits Secundu-a was then alive — SnulFy old drono from the German hive ! That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done BO brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the deacon... | |
 | Carriage-Builders' National Association of the United States of America - 1873 - 42 pages
...arrive at that point so aptly described by Holmes in the " Deacon's One-horse Shay," when he says, " Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somrwkert a weakest spot; In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or cross-bar, or floor... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...hundred and fifty-five. Gcoryins Secundus was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open...terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the onehoss-shay. Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Scanning was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open...terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the oue-hoss shay. Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot,... | |
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Secundus was then alive — Snuffy old drone from the German hive; That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was' done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. 
