Crossword-Solution: CARK 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Thus of old 'Twas pelts, and of to-day 'tis purple and gold That cark men's lives with cares and weary with war.

CHAPTER XVII JOHN IS CLEARLY BEWITCHED To forget one's luck of life, to forget the cark of care and withering of young fingers; not to feel, or not be moved by, all the change of thought and heart, from large young heat to the sinewy lines and dry bones of old age--this is what I have to do ere ever I can make you know (even as a dream is known) how I loved my Lorna.

Now, as I stood with scanty breath--for few men could have won that climb--at the top of the long defile, and the bottom of the mountain gorge all of myself, and the pain of it, and the cark of my discontent fell away into wonder and rapture.

What days of drudgery, nights of stress Can cark a throne, Even one maintained in peacefulness, I too have known.

There’s a joy without canker or cark, There’s a pleasure eternally new, ’Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that’s ancient and blue; Unchipp’d all the centuries through It has pass’d, since the chime of it rang, And they fashion’d it, figure and hue, In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.