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But when he went, and never more there came The love-sad eyes to question and entreat, The voice of music praising noble deeds, The graceful presence and the golden hair, She miss'd the boy; but scoff'd at first and said: "One misses all things, common pets one spurn'd, Good slaves and bad alike when both are gone, A small thing makes the habit of a life!" But days wore on, and adulation palled.
I never seed none o' yer steam keers, but I reckon they don't go no faster ner thet blame hoss. Gosh, Cap, ye ain't got no call fer ter git mad; I couldn't a stopped her with a yoke o' steers, durned if I cud. I sorter reckon I know now 'bout whut Scott meant when he said, 'The turf the flying courser spurn'd, you bet this en did."
Outflanking us by masses of infantry and swarms of cavalry tearing us to tatters by the swift destruction from their immense and beautiful artillery it fared with the Sikhs, before the stemless tide of British ardour, as with the Philistines before Samson "When unsupportably his foot advanced," "In scorn of their proud arms and warlike tools," "Spurn'd them to death by troops."
His happy lot I gladly share, And breathe a purer, freer air; No more by wealthy upstart spurn'd, The bread is sweet by labour earn'd; Indulgent heaven has bless'd the soil, And plenty crowns the woodman's toil.
Thus spurn'd, thus disappointed of my aim, I'll stand a bugbear in the road to Fame, Each future author's infant hopes undo, And blast the budding honours of his brow. He said, and, grown with future vengeance big, Grimly he shook his scientific wig.
Fair Sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last; You spurn'd me such a day; another time You called me dog; and, for these courtesies, 'we are ready to comply with whatever you desire. This, I say, may be possible. But I confess I would rather make such an experiment, when the issue of it was matter of more indifference.
But nothing could a charm impart To sooth the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the hermit spy'd, With answering care opprest: 'And whence, unhappy youth, he cry'd, 'The sorrows of thy breast? 'From better habitations spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove; Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd, Or unregarded love?
Leto's offspring and Zeus'; who, in anger against Agamemnon, Issued the pestilence dire, and the leaguer was swept with destruction; For that the King had rejected, and spurn'd from the place in dishonour Chryses, the priest of the God, when he came to the warrior-galleys, Willing to rescue his daughter with plentiful gifts of redemption, Bearing the fillet divine in his hands of the Archer Apollo Twined on the sceptre of gold: and petition'd the host of Achaia, Foremost of all the Atreidæ, the twain that were chief in dominion: "Hear, ye Atreidæ! and hear, ye Achaians, resplendent in armour!
Their full fed stream Of gold, of clatter, and of pride He saw, and smote with brandish'd flame Him, who at summit of his goal Would raise the peal of Conquest. 2nd Strophe. "Foil'd in his frantic rush, Though still with blasts of hate against us raving, Down dropt he, torch and all, And heavy struck the Earth, who upward spurn'd him.
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