| 1894 - 576 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.' He explains this by saying that the voices we attribute to Nature are the voices of departed spirits,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn; But that the stream, the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
| 1850 - 938 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, _ And oaks in deeper groan reply, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." NORTH. And there the Last Minstrel should have ceased. What follows spoils all — fanciful, fantastic... | |
| Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...flowers in tears of halm distil ; Through his loved groves that hreezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, , And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...tears of balm distil ; 'trough his loved groves that breezes sigh, Ami oak* in deeper groan reply ; II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; Rut that the stream, the wood, the gale, Is vocal with the plaintive wail Of those, who, else forgotten... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...oakt in deeper groan reply , And river* teach their nulling wave To murmur dirges round his grave. U. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate...But that the stream, the wood, the gale, Is vocal wilh the plaintive wail Of those, who, else forgotten long, Lived in the poet's faithful song. And,... | |
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