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" ... the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : — Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved... "
A Year Abroad: Or Sketches of Travel in Great Britain, France and Switzerland - Page 58
by Willard C. George - 1852 - 248 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 179

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,...
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

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...
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The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

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...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 67

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...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

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...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 2

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...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume

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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

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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