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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1859], Knitting-work: a web of many textures. (Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston) [word count] [eaf676T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
O, the wild fever of this mad unrest, When baffled man, amid his hopes and fears, Smites in despair his over-anxious breast, Not knowing in the dark which way he steers; With brokers on his lee, and subtle sands, That late seemed stones, but now prove naught but stocks; He wrings imploringly his trembling hands, And, just like those in Scripture, prays the rocks May fall upon him — but prefers the sort From California; and, howe'er their power, 'T would be to him, just now, delightful sport To stand and weather the auriferous shower, Begging propitious Fortune to let down Boulders of any size — he 'll risk his crown.
Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1859], Knitting-work: a web of many textures. (Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston) [word count] [eaf676T]. |
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