...human noises grow ; 15 And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts : marvel not thou 1 The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to...the stars, and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun arises, and alone 20 Spring the great streams. But, if the wild unfather'd mass no birth In divine...

...have had enough of tragedy or pathology it is a relief to turn and listen to his pure, sound strain: Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Bare the lone pastoral huts—marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But...

...upon the majestic peace, the holy freedom of wide glimmering spaces between mountain and water, when " Thin, thin, the pleasant human noises grow And faint the city gleams." Longfellow, Stevenson drank of its wisdom; Sven Hedin in happier days could almost hear the whirl of...

...isolation in which human lives are islanded, she has naught to offer hut an answering solitariness: The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to...the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams. The fragrant lawns, the cool trees, the tranquil Thames, the moonlight and the dew could not assuage...

...thin the pleasant human voices grow, And faint the city gleams; Rare the lone pastoral huts; marvel not thou! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known,...the stars and the cold lunar beams; Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams. Thus the after-Christian poet echoes the prophet psalmist's...

...places, and several English ladies have reached the top. The artist shows the loneliness of greatness: 'The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But...beams; Alone the sun rises, and alone .Spring the great streams.—MATTHK-W AKNOID.'" With the knowledge of the indifference, because of the unhelped, and...

...varied and beautiful crests to a height which nearly touches 9,000 feet. In familiar words— " Those solemn peaks but to the stars are known. But to the stars and the cold lunar beams. Alone the sun arises and alone Spring the great streams." Leaving Punachi after a vain search for game with some...

...moon was the source of cool rays, an image that is evoked here, as also in Matthew Arnold's lines, The Solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars and the cold lunar beams: 6. The idea that celestial bodies, like the moon, have perceptible influence on human behavior is ancient....

...lonely pureness to the all-pure Fount (Only by this thou canst) the colour'd dream Of Life remount. Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts : marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold...