 Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To...  Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Sivu 5761856Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1847 - 522 sivua
...influence of the unions. The following moral closes the poem : — " Gold, gold, gold, gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold ; Molten, graven, hammered,...borrowed, squandered, doled ; Spurned by the young, and hugged by the old, To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ;... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 sivua
...Heavy to get, and light to hold; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled; Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old, To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold, Gold! gold! gold! gold I Good or bad a thousand fold. How widely... | |
 | 1858 - 518 sivua
...I. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, aml hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolPd, Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered,...bought and sold. Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled To the very verge of the church-yard mould! Price of many a crime untold; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!—... | |
 | 1848 - 588 sivua
...avaricious man outlives all other lores : — Gold, gold, gold, Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, Spumed by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould. Oh ! the sad thought that he is now to part with his long cherished treasure. The thought, too,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 200 sivua
...Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold; Molten, graven, hammered, and roll'd, Heavy to get, and light to hold; Hoarded, bartered,...borrowed, squandered, doled ; Spurned by the young, but hugg'd by the old, To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold. Gold!... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 sivua
...they brought it in as Felo-de-Se, " Because her own leg had killed her Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered...hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold ! gold ! gold ! gold ! Good or bad a thousand-fold ! How... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1854 - 304 sivua
...bringing up the rear. And so it goes, through three mortal columns. •Gold, gold, gold, gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold ; Molten, graven, hammered and rolled, Heavy to get, but light to hold.1 * And what a list of returned wanderers ! I glance rapidly down the A's, the B's,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1854 - 296 sivua
...bringing up the rear. And so it goes, through three mortal columns. 'Gold, gold, gold, gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold; Molten, graven, hammered and rolled, Heavy to get, but light to hold.' And what a list of returned wanderers ! I glance rapidly down the A's, the B's,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1855 - 806 sivua
...hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrowed, FqUHtidered, doled ; Spurned by Ihe young, but hugged by the old To the very verge, of the churchyard mold ; Price of mnny a crime untold ! Gold! Gold! Gold! Cold! Good or bad a thousand fold ! But to return to business.... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 sivua
...do not wonder that the quaint Thomas Hood thus sang of it : — " Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold ; Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, arid light to hold ; Hoarded, battered, bought and sold ; Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled; Spurned... | |
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