 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...happiest efforts : — " Par from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty...dauntless child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smil'd. ' This pencil take,' she said, ' whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayM, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face...dauntless child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smil'd. This pencil take, she said, whose colors clear. Richly paint the vernal year: Thine too these... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...lake below. (1. 1-6) 28 Far from the sun and summer-gale In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, O[ O P ^ X? #x l x fw (1. 82-86) 29 Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy 193 194 30 He saw:... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, 85 What time, where lucid Avon stray 'd, To Him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: the dauntless child Stretch 'd forth his little arms, and smiled. This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear 90 Richly... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...innocent, entrusted with a mighty and powerful gift - a gift which is possibly beyond his means of control: To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face: the dauntless child Stretched forth his little arms and smiled. This pencil take,' (she said) 'whose colours clear Richly... | |
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This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears. 
