Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world - with kings, The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers... The New York Speaker - Page 265by Warren P. Edgarton - 1868Full view - About this book
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...resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, ihe good — Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages pasl, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd... | |
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...accomplishments any one can possess are a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
| American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...mould. • Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — :nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
| 1822 - 858 pages
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| 1822 - 764 pages
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| Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...— the wise, the go»d, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move Tn majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round Old ocean's grey... | |
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