 | 1847 - 574 psl.
...Night-birds ore we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is hut short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 psl.
...Night-birds arc we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perehed round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855 - 526 psl.
...Night-birds are we : Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Bound the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 psl.
...are we ; Here we carouse, . Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. (64) Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit...we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1864 - 580 psl.
...but rather joining with a smile, if, in hilarity, we raised his own song of evening festivity : — Here let us sport, Boys as we sit, Laughter and wit...we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. All ! the old tree remains, and the surviving company still sits round it, and they will raise the... | |
 | 1864 - 472 psl.
...but rather joining with a smile, if, in hilarity, we raised his own song of evening festivity : — Here let us sport, Boys as we sit, Laughter and wit...free»: Life is but short ; When we are gone, Let them sine on Kound the old tree. Ah ! the old tren remains, and the surviving company still sits round it,... | |
 | 1864 - 556 psl.
...smile, if, in hilarity, we raised his own song of evening festivity : — Here let us sport, Boys as wo sit, Laughter and wit Flashing so free: Life is but...we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. Ah ! the old tree remains, and the surviving company still sits round it, and they will raise the song... | |
 | 1864 - 108 psl.
...Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Ilere let us spprt, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free....but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Bound the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 psl.
...Night-birds are we ; Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 432 psl.
...Night-birds are we : Here we carouse, Singing like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and...we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss, Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and... | |
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Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit — Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree. 
