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Page 585 - where he hears no sound Save his own dashings—yet—the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.— So shall thou rest—and what if thou shall fall Unnoticed by
Page 585 - up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix for ever with the elements. To be a brother to th' insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with 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
Page 585 - YET a few days, and thee, The all-beholding sun, shall see no more, In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in th' embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolv'd to earth again ; And, lost each human trace,
Page 585 - thou wish Couch more magnificent Thou shall 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 sepulcher.—The hills,
Page 583 - That delicate forest flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this great universe.
Page 583 - Go—but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of Nature, shall restore, Sweet odors m the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the homesick mariner of the shore ; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream,.
Page 583 - Lo ! all grow old and die—but see again. How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses—ever-gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms. * * * Oh, there is not lost One of earth's charms: upon her bosom yet. After the flight of untold centuries. The freshness of her far beginning lies, And yet shall
Page 473 - Fringed Gentian," whose sweet lesson he interpreted in his maturer years. In the rear of the homestead, only a few rods remote, is " The Rivulet," the scene of his childish delight and his boyish dreams. " This little rill that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and
Page 585 - on, and each one chases as before His favorite phantom.—Yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee
Page 583 - Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet, when life was new. ****** And I shall sleep—and on thy side, As ages after ages glide, Children their early sports shall try, And pass to hoary age and die. But thou unchanged from year to year,