 Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 511800Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1910 - 542 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses?... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are houses... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1910 - 344 pages
...Jennies, All the names that banish care, Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show the spirit of an heir. ' Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. ' When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full and spirits high — What are acres ? what are... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 540 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are houses... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are houses?... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 542 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. " Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. " When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? what are... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1116 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly: There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are houses... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...Joy to see their quarry fly : There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high— What are acres t What are houses... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...guineas, Show the spirits of an heir. Then follows the stanza already quoted, and the poet continues : Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. 1 Mrs. Piozzi published the lines eight years later in herBritish Synonymy, I. 359- Miscellanies,... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. 251 Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? what are houses... | |
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