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 seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The Retrospective Review - Page 3151824Full view - About this book
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...resting place, Shalt thou retire, alone—nor could'st thou wish Couch, more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of (he earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary sccrs of ages post, All—in one—mighty sepulchre.... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet, not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent....ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Hock-ribb'd, and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...resting place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. 5. . The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...4. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. 5. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...that grasps Beyond a grain, and looks beyond an h6ur. 3. Are you going hume 1 Are you going home 1 4. The hills, Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun; the...Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable w&ods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent....ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent....forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. 4. The hills, Eock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
| Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. ' Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, — with kings, The powerful of ihe earth, — the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...abroad, and pierce thy mould. 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 seers of... | |
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