| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending as they fall, In rushing river-tides! Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling towards the sun Through the cleft mountain-ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 pages
...let us trust the more ! Through all the wanderings of the path, We still can see our Father's door ! THE TWO STREAMS. BEHOLD the rocky wall That down its...rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides ! Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...more I Through all the wanderings of the path, We still can see our Father's door 1 THE TWO STEEAMS. BEHOLD the rocky wall That down its sloping sides...rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides ! Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through... | |
| 1862 - 712 pages
...its sloping Bides ' Pours the swift rain drops, bleuding, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Yon stream, whose sources run, Turned by a pebble's edge,...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed. But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1862 - 718 pages
...its slopir% sides Pours the swift rain drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Yon stream, whose sources run, Turned by a pebble's edge,...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1862 - 716 pages
...separate themselves from him. We quote these lines as a specimen of the felicity and force of his style : Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Ton stream, whose sources run, Turned... | |
| 1867 - 410 pages
...hesitate whether to flow eastward and mingle with the Mississippi, or westward to the Pacific : Yon stream whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge,...Athabasca rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1868 - 504 pages
...down its sloping aides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides. Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge,...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...Through all the wanderings of the path, We still cau see our Father's door 1 THE TVTO STREAMS. EHOLD the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, aa they fall, In rushing river-tides ! Yon stream, whose sourees run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1876 - 278 pages
...weep away my being o'er thee, And veil thy breast with icicles and thy brow with snow ! Jean Ingclow. THE TWO STREAMS. BEHOLD the rocky wall That down its...rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides ! Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through... | |
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