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...his publisher, and as he practised the precept set forth in the lmes, — The best of all ways For to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my love, he needed a few hours extra sleep in the morning to compensate for those stolen from the night....

...— who do comprehend the occult signification concealed in the apparently frivolous assertion That the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from night ; which, I have no doubt, was practised by the patriarchs. But what on earth are you standing...

...the drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake 1 — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tie never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, IB to steal a few hours from the night, my dear ! collection, а poem translated from thu Irish, by...

...awake I —the heavens look hright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the hest of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few...all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star- wateh keeping, love, And I, whose star, Then awake 1 — till rise of sun, my dear, The Sage's...

...was as singularly melancholy and unfortunate as his lift had been amiable, honourable, and exemplary. And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear t Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star,...

...bright, my dear, 'T is never too late for delight, my dear, 1 " Steals silently to Morna's grove." And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to...glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. Then awake ! — till rise of sun, my dear, The Sage's glass we 'll shun, my dear, Or, in watching...

...was as singularly melancholy and unfortunate as his life had been amiable, honourable, and exemplary. And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is...glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. Then awake ! — till rise of sun, my dear, The Sage's glass we'll shun, my dear, Or, in watching...

...upon me that this was the cause of the noise and the blaze. If the song is true that in the West " The best of all ways, To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night," the best way to multiply our years must be to come to the East, for I shall at least have seen two...

...BARHAH. 25 Like his friend, Cannon was one of those who gave full assent to the poet's doctrine : * " The best of all ways, To lengthen our days, .% Is to steal a few hours from night," Ac. And so resolutely did he at times carry it out in practice, as to be productive of no little...