 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest •on kissed and closed his eyes.' sed, Shall kiss the up to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich de Jfute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say t»ll cliff and cavern lone,... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1852 - 190 Seiten
...than content. SALISBURY HOUSK, January 1, 1852. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO V. — Beginning — Call it not vain ! They do not err Who say, that,...distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply. And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
 | Willard C. George - 1852 - 266 Seiten
...resting-place. While I stood by his grave, I took Marmion from my pocket and read his own words aloud : " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...distil ; Through his loved groves, that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groans reply : And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that,...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; Who say 5 tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill;... | |
 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 290 Seiten
...apply to the orator and lover of nature, as well as to the poet, those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, Who say, that when...distil ; Through his loved groves, that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And Ocean tells its rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 Seiten
...Han, And thus his tale continued ran. trje £ag of tlje Cast iîlinstttl. CANTO ПГТП. •L CALI it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when...distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their mailing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, AVho say, that when the 1'oet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates...distil ; Through his loved groves, that breezes sigh, Anil oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And Ocean tells its rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...apply to the orator and lover of nature, as well as to the poet, those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; AVho say tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 418 Seiten
...Lay of the Last Minstrel, and, as if by instinct, the first lines my eye fell upon were these: — " Call it not vain: they do not err Who say, that when...distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave."... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 Seiten
...feelings of his fellow men ; a monument far more imperishable than those wrought of marble and brass. "Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say,...distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave."... | |
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CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... 
