 | 1888 - 328 pages
...failing light ; Something remains for us to do or dare ; Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening . . . fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. From LONGFELLOW'S... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1888 - 80 pages
...one morning rode aso Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away »85 The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. A sentiment... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 834 pages
...Í881, he wrote in his diary : " I am surrounded by roses and lilies. Flowers everywhere— " Ко г age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight faciès away, The skv is filled with stare, invisible bv day." But he had... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 pages
...failing light. Something remains for us to do and dare — Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | William Winter - 1890 - 86 pages
...failing light. Something remains for us to do — or dare; Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity, no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And, as the lessening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Formal... | |
 | 1890 - 410 pages
...moments waste,— Finds consolation in the saying fair, That "E'en the oldest tree some fruit may bear, For age is opportunity, no less Than youth itself, though in another dress." To-day we meet to sing a nobler strain, With flashing eye, strong arm, and active brain. Not like the... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. HW Longfellow,... | |
 | Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - 1891 - 108 pages
...world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. — Browning. Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And, as the evening twilight fades away, The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. — Longfellow.... | |
 | 1905 - 556 pages
...real ! Life is earnest ! It was the same, when, in his old age, he declared in "Morituri Salutamus:" For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress. This is the theme with which he is constantly dealing. In its development he writes of the individual,... | |
 | Augustine Jones - 1892 - 52 pages
...and more unto the perfect day." A poet who had known and felt it all, says more sweetly and truly, "Age is opportunity, no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars invisible by day."J This poet... | |
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 
