 Twill murmur on a thousand years And flow as now it flows. " And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For...  The Recreations of a Country Parson - Page 206by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...thus the dear old Man replied, The grey-hair'd Man of glee. " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes ! Twill murmur on a thousand years,...flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chuse but think How oft, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. 128 My eyes are dim with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...the dear old Man replied, The grey-hailed Man of glee.— " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes! Twill murmur on a thousand years,...flows. " And here, on this delightful day,- ' I cannot chuse but think How oft,, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes, 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes, 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 442 pages
...far-off-rememscoru the introduction of such verses as bered melody, as Wordsworth says, — " Mine eyes are filled with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in mine ears That heretofore I heard." It was this feeling, so truly imbued in most natural and original... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...thus the dear old man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years,...eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 258 pages
...age, expressed in the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years,...a vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain's brink. " Mine eyes are dim with childish tear*, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in mine eart,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - English fiction - 1827 - 382 pages
...age, expressed in the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years....now It flows. " And here, on this delightful day, T cannot choose but think, How oft a vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain's brink. " Mine eyes are... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...the dear old man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : • Down to tbe vale this water steers, Bow merrily it goes ! Twill murmur on a thousand years,...flows. • And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chute but think Bow oft, a vigorous man, I lay leside this Fountain's brink. • My eyes are dim with... | |
 | Mansie Wauch - Dalkeith (Scotland) - 1828 - 232 pages
...and heads to require polling, as long as wood grows and water runs. CHAPTER XXtV. SERIOUS MUSINGS. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the .same snuod is in mine ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in oar decay ; And yet the wiser... | |
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