...best series of letters. Do not be behind Nature, if you are behind the times. Dotnn €ast anir ©nt " The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun : the...quietness between The venerable woods: rivers that move j* In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green." * * * # " These are the gardens...

...retained it thereafter. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With...The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, M Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and...

...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietude between — The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks...

...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...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...

...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...

...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, 35 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All...

...to that of Irving: Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre . . . By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About...

...dropped before the reader really grasps how little consolation it is, after all, to be told that he will "lie down / With patriarchs of the infant world -.../ The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good. ..." Indeed, the whole notion of the vocation of poetry as primarily one of consolation comes out of...

...eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past. - William Cullan Bryant. The word 'soul,' given lip service only for two millennia by Christian whites,...

...pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With...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...