...meets So forlorn ; 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 cheek...

...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...

...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 he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And...

...such an one in his mind when he wrote : " And 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." A few yards from the Zion Gate, and as many rods east of the Coenaculum, stands the town-house of Caiaphas,...

...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...finer than those six lines in the English language ! " A day or two afterward, he asked me to accompany him to the temporary studio, at the Treasury Department,...

...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." Dr. Holmes has been likened to Thomas Hood ; but there is little in common between them save the power...

...favorite. The following-verse he regarded as equal to anything in the language : " The mossy marble rests On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And...hear, Have been carved for many a year, On the tomb." • He made a speech at a Burns'Festival, in which he spoke at length of Burns' poems; illustrating...

...following-verse he regarded as equal to anything in the language : " The mossy marble rests On the Hps that lie has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved...( Have been carved for many a year, On the tomb." * He made a speech at a Burns'Festival, in which he spoke at length of Burns' poems; illustrating what...

...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 grand-mamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago, — That he had a Roman nose, And...

...entitled ' The Last Leaf,' one of which is to me inexpressibly touching." Ho then repeated, — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...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...