A Hebrew knelt in the dying light,
His eye was dim and cold,
The hairs on his brow were silver-white,
And his blood was thin and old.
-- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859)
-- The Devil's Progress
His eye was dim and cold,
The hairs on his brow were silver-white,
And his blood was thin and old.
-- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859)
-- The Devil's Progress
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And had an early doom.
Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's... - The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.
Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's... - Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.
Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's... - Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices],
a rottenness begins in his conduct." -- Thomas Jefferson... - His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
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Old Testament -- Deuteronomy xxxiv,... - He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the... - A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas... - His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling
outside.
Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew..... - So dim that his psychic carries a
flashlight...
