 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1908 - 303 páginas
...thy fearful symmetry ? THE FLY. OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKINU our or TEE AUTHOR'S CUP. William Oldys. BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer ; mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear... | |
 | Eleanor Smith - 1908
...Bus- y, on -rious, thirst -y fly, Drink with me and drink aз I. Free - ly wel -come to my cup.Couldst thou sip and sip it up. Make the most of life you may : Life is short and wears a - way. Scale of At> Major ' ^-~5=^=5=g_ Relative Harmonic Minor 9 Relative Melodic Minor -;; gi Melody... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 606 páginas
...oaths when she 's severe, But break them when she's kind. J. OLDMIXON. 705. BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 606 páginas
...oaths when she's severe, But break them when she's kind. J. OLDMIXON. 705. BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine 'sa summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're... | |
 | 1912
...work, if you wait, you. will find the place Where the four-leaf clovers grow. TO A FLY WILLIAM OLDYS BUSY, curious, thirsty Fly, Drink with me, and drink...short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hast'ning quick to its decline, — Thine's a summer; mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore,... | |
 | Jean Dawson - 1914 - 346 páginas
...innocent fly," and a stanza of a little poem that he had been taught in the third grade came to his mind : Busy, curious, thirsty Fly, Drink with me, and drink...most of life you may ! Life is short and wears away. " Surely the man who wrote that did not know that flies carry disease, or maybe the flies have changed... | |
 | Richardson Little Wright - 1914 - 406 páginas
...began to swish her dust cloth over the top of the lowboy, singing, to a tune of her own invention, " Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I Freely welcome to my . . . " Phew ! " She crouched and rubbed the stubby claw-feet of the lowboy. " Freely welcome to my... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1915
...It has almost the simplicity of Blake, — and certainly something of the same kind of philosophy. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink...you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike arc mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline; Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated... | |
 | P.F. Collier, Inc - 1915 - 391 páginas
...apparently he did not, and even regarded the fly with some affection. We find the following lines: Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink...most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. They are attributed to WILLIAM OLDYS, antiquary, bibliographer, and librarian, who was born in 1696... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 786 páginas
...drinking out of a cup of ale " : — •' Busy, curious, thirsty fly ! Drink with me, and drink as I ! Make the most of life you may ; Life is short and wears away ! Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ! Threescore summers when they're gone,... | |
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up: Make the most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline: Thine's a... 
