 tis, and scrupulous care. To place my gains beyond the reach of tides. Each smoother pebble, and each shell more rare. Which ocean kindly to my hand confides. I have but few companions on the shore, They scorn the strand who sail upon the sea, Yet oft...  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Page 261by Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...sometimes o'crreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. "My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,...think the ocean they 've sailed o'er Is deeper known npon the strand to me. " The middle sea contains no crimson dulse, Its deeper waves cast up no pearls... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...sometimes o'erreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. " My sole employment 't is, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,...rare, Which ocean kindly to my hand confides. " I have bnt few companions on the shore, They scorn the strand who sail npon the sea, Yet oft I think the ocean... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...waves sometimes o'erreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment is, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,...who sail upon the sea — Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,... | |
 | Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 216 pages
...o'er-reach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, Each smoother...who sail upon the sea ; Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 248 pages
...sometimes o'erreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides...who sail upon the sea ; Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. MEN GOING TO SEA. I2i The middle sea contains... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pages
...o'erreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis and scrupulous care To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, — Each smoother...who sail upon the sea ; Yet oft I think the ocean they've sail'd o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 466 pages
...o'erreach, Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment 'tis and scrupulous care To set my gains beyond the reach of tides, — Each smoother...— • They scorn the strand who sail upon the sea ; The middle sea contains no crimson dulse, Its deeper waves cast up no pearls to view ; Along the... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Mackenzie - 1881 - 504 pages
...sometimes o'erreach ; Sometimes I stay, and let them overflow. " My sole employment 't is_, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,...more rare, Which ocean kindly to my hand confides." One by one the old Concord poets and romancers have departed, as Thoreau saw Walden woods falling around... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...Divine Trinity. Also Discussion of the Doctrine of the Trinity, by Lutker Lee and Samuel J. May I had but few companions on the shore ; They scorn the strand...who sail upon the sea ; Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,... | |
 | 1886 - 220 pages
...sometimes o'erreach ; Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment is, and scrupulous care, To place my gains beyond the reach of tides,...who sail upon the sea ; Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er Is deeper known upon the strand to me. The middle sea contains no crimson dulse... | |
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