 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...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 290by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...deem ! and e'en the tears they wake Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. THE DEPARTED. "Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? — Earth's mightiest... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould, Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...4. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish...the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, AH in one mighty sepulchre. 5. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching... | |
 | 1868 - 300 pages
...swain Turns with his share and treads upon. Yet not to thy dark resting-place Shalt thou retire alone. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. So shalt thou rest ; and what if thou withdraw, Unheeded by the living, and no friend Take... | |
 | Hugh Murray - United States - 1844 - 390 pages
...those who have not met with it. After announcing to every individual his mortal fate, he proceeds : — Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...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... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - English poetry - 1844 - 274 pages
...his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Christian ethics - 1844 - 572 pages
...send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould ; Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou return alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent....and hoary seers of ages past— All in one mighty sepulchre ! The hills, Rock ribbed, and ancient as the sun — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...resting-place Shalt thon retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulehre. — The hills Rock-rihb'd, and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
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