Quote#Nature
'Twas in the prime of summer-time
Quote byThomas Hood · 1799–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Dream of Eugene Aram.
English (original)
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool.
— Thomas Hood
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I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy
There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell.
I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day;
And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid!
But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.