 Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish...  Harper's First [-sixth] Reader - Page 344edited by - 1889Full view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...resolved to earth again ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould, Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go 25 To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 30 « Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...resolved to earth again ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements ; To be a brother...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | Thomas Peter Akers - Greensburg (Ky.) - 1851 - 538 pages
...affection — the halls of comfort and affluence, to lie in the cold chambers of the grave, and become "A brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish...the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon •" Whose ear will never more listen to the " Breezy call of incense breathing morn, The swallow twittering... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...again, And lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould ; Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone—nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...again, And lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individua! being, shall tliou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould ; Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone— nor rouklst thou wish Couch... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...resolved to earth agam ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, — To be a brother...rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. 5. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt... | |
 | 1852 - 424 pages
...But ah! how changed is that storn castle now! Inexorable time has ruined all, save the turf around "Which the rude swain turns with his share And treads upon." The walls are jagged and torn — turret and tower — donjon-keep and banquet hall have felt the forco... | |
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