 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...green and slender, Veining delicate and fibres tender ; Waving when the wind crept down so low. Rushes in by night, and crowned it, But no loot of man eYr trod that way ; Earth was young, and keeping holiday.... | |
 | Isabel Reaney - 1874 - 310 Seiten
...and slender. Veining delicate, and fibres tender — Waving, when the wind kept down so low ; Rushes tall, and moss and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole in by night and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way, Earth was young, and keeping holiday.... | |
 | 1874 - 820 Seiten
...crept down so low ; Rushes tall and grass and moss grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, But no foot of man e'er came that way — Earth was young and keeping holiday. Useless ! Lost ? There came a thoughtful man Searching nature's secrets far and deep. From a fissure... | |
 | 1876 - 216 Seiten
...Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray. THE PETEIFIED FERN. MARY BOLLES BRANCH. . * In a valley, centuries ago, Grew a little fern leaf,...sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole by night and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way ; Earth was young and keeping holiday.... | |
 | Robert Laird Collier - 1876 - 148 Seiten
...re-allegiance to its God, is right when it tests its loyalty by patriotism to humanity. H 2 THE SURE HELL " In a valley, centuries ago, Grew a little fern leaf,...sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole in, by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way; Earth was young, and keeping holiday.... | |
 | Robert Laird Collier - 1876 - 144 Seiten
...slender — Veiiiing delicate, and fibres tender — Waving, when the wind crept down so low; Rushes tall, and moss, and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole in, by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way; Earth was young, and keeping holiday.... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1876 - 278 Seiten
...green and slender, Veining delicate and fibres tender; Waving when the wind crept down so low ; Rusjies tall, and moss, and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way ; Earth was young and keeping holiday.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 Seiten
...and fibres tender; Waving when the wind crept down so low; sings. SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Rushes tall, and moss, and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it. Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way; Earth was young and keeping holiday.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 Seiten
...green and slender, Vcining delicate find fibers tender : Waving when the wind crept down so low. Rushes tall, and moss, and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in anil fnnnd it, Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it, But no foot of mnn e'er trod that way... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 300 Seiten
........ 91 IV. THE AGE OF MAN, 241 APPENDIX. QUESTIONS, 257 GLOSSARY, . . . . . . . . .275 INDEX 277 IN a valley, centuries ago, Grew a little fern leaf,...way — Earth was young and keeping holiday. Monster fis'jes swam the silent main, Stately forests waved their giant branches, Mountains hurled their snowy... | |
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IN a valley, centuries ago, Grew a little fern-leaf green and slender, Veining delicate and fibres tender ; Waving when the wind crept down so low. Rushes tall and moss and grass grew round it, Playful sunbeams darted in and found it, Drops of dew stole... 
