...and these were invariably of the highest literary and moral excellence. " The mossy marbles rest i On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." He then added, " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than these-six lines in the...

...That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his...

...the last reader reads no more. The Last Reader. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. The Last Leaf. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat,...

...Leaf" was one of his favorites; he knew it by heart, and used often to repeat with deep feeling : The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb; giving the marked Southwestern pronunciation of the words " hear " and " year." A poem by William Knox,...

...meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The blessings on that happy day, the happiest of my life,...Yes " made you my loving wife ! Your heart will say My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And*...

...meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his...

...from memory. The verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...verse, he said, in his emphatic way, " For pure pathos, m my judgment, there is nothmg finer than those six lines in the English language ! " A day or two...

...his friends and companions ? Where will the happiness be for the lonely centenarian — " When the mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed,...been carved for many a. year On the tomb ?" As he looks on life's busy whirl, so changeless in its activity, its energy, and its vigour, yet ever changing...

...Holmes's " Last Leaf " he thought was " inexpressibly touching." This verse we give the reader : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Mr. Lincoln frequently said that he lived by his humor, and would have died without it. His manner...

...That it seems as if he said, " They are gone ! " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That ho had a Roman nose, And his chock was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose U thin, And it...