Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years... Readings in American Poetry - Page 15by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
| American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound Save his -own dashings — yet, the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unnotic'd by the living — and... | |
| 1822 - 764 pages
...desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous .woods Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet, the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shall thou rest — and what if thou shall fall Unnotic'd by the living — and... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound, 22 * 2S8 THE AMERICAN (Lew<ra 11T. Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. — So shall thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living —... | |
| John March Putnam - Textbooks - 1828 - 200 pages
...as, A period having arrived wh' it fifty jearsheiice, &c. Where roils the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings,— yet the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep ; the dead reign there alone. So ihalt thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living, and... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 514 pages
...desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the contiguous woods, Where rolls the Oregnn, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there !...have laid them down In their last sleep— the dead reign there alone. So «halt thou rest;— aud what if thou shalt fell Unnoticed by the living— and... | |
| 1829 - 642 pages
...thyself in the contiguous woods, Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound Save his own dash ings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest; — and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living —... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 516 pages
...thyself in the contiguous woods, Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound Save his own dashings— vet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes,...have laid them down In their last sleep— the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest ;— and what if thou shalt lull L'nnoticed by the living —... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings—yet—the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since...of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.— So shalt thou rest—and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...the Oregan, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings— yet— the dead are there, And millions hi those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. — So shalt thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living —... | |
| Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie - Sermons, American - 1829 - 444 pages
...that tread The globe, are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. ——Millions — since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep." From their graves a small still voice seems to convey this prophetic caution to our hearts : " So shalt... | |
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