 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 320 ˹éÒ
...after-time. rv. So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. V. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 ˹éÒ
...after-time. ' So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear • Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. ' And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vein asperities I day by day... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 ˹éÒ
...after-time. So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 ˹éÒ
...after time. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid...I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | 1821 - 702 ˹éÒ
...abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities, I day by day... | |
 | 664 ˹éÒ
...abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities, I day by day... | |
 | 1830 - 492 ˹éÒ
...after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home,...I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly- Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 ˹éÒ
...after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, '•> Gentle at home...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, • All vain asperities I day by... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 ˹éÒ
...after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 ˹éÒ
...leaves appear. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid...I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, AH vain asperities I day by day Would... | |
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And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 
