| 1819 - 808 Seiten
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...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 - 792 Seiten
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...replied, The gray-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes ! 'T will murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, upon this delightful day, I cannot choose but think • How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
| 1832 - 406 Seiten
...wave the old, but yet strong and leafy boughs ; beside them runs the river along its rocky bed ; — " Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows :" but the home of ancient state is stripped bare of all that once adorned it, nor roof nor floor remains... | |
| 1840 - 566 Seiten
...flood, one day glittering in sunshine, and another touched bj'the shower or stricken by the storm : " 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." Alike imperishable is that stream which, gushing from the fountains of a poet's genius, has found a... | |
| 1851 - 318 Seiten
...Goat. AQUARtUS. JANUARY. THE WATER-BEARER; OR THE DRUID'S MOUND. " Down to the vale this water steera, How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." Far away among the Yorkshire wolds, at that period of the year when the winter begins to steal away... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 442 Seiten
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...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... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 444 Seiten
...foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the rale 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... | |
| 1856 - 252 Seiten
...THE WATER-BEAKER; OE, THE DRUID'S MOUND. "Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes I 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." FAR away among the Yorkshire wolds, at that period of the year when the winter begins to steal away... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - 672 Seiten
...perpetuity is one of the most poetical attributes of a river : No check, no stay, the streamlet fears ; How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. So likewise the brook, which is the miniature of the river in its natural characters and aspects, partakes... | |
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