| A. Hamilton Thompson - 2019 - 246 sider
...fleet as hawk ; 3o Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay. THE SPINDLE SONG Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy...of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, 5 And the infant's life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 2004 - 564 sider
...of life, and another twisted its bright and dark lines together, and another severed it at will. " Twist ye, twine ye ! even so, Mingle shades of joy...and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life." — SCOTT. Before the threshold of hell they passed through a group of beings who are enumerated as... | |
| 1871 - 780 sider
...a great deal to those who know what an army is. There are weeks, there may be months, of " Mingled shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of every life." If sickness visits the troops, as it is so apt to. do in quarters, it is almost impossible... | |
| 320 sider
...the Bard compare the paraphrase of the gipsy's song in Guy Mannering [c. IV.] : 'Twist ye, twine ye I even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and pea'-e and strife In the thread of human life. Now they wax and now they dwindle Whirling with the... | |
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