 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...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...meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - Nature - 1992 - 400 pages
...anthropomorphism is Bryant's "Thanatopsis": ... The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old oceans gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Since... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
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The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and... 
