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" I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye. "
The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio - Page 65
by Henry Clapp - 1846 - 208 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. 10 All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...alder bough; I brought him home in his nest at even ; 15 He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He...
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The Western Messenger, Volume 6

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 440 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Dinging at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home in...not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky, Ho sane to my ear, these sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore — The bubbles of the...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 pages
...needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Sinking at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home in...not bring home the river and sky, He sang to my ear, these sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore— The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh...
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pages
...Some deemed himc wondrous wise, and some believed hime mad.— Beattle. I thought the sparrow's note e from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ;...and sky, He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.— BW Emerson. » Eule ix., Rem. 7. b In apposition with it. c This is an idiomatic use of the verb had....
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 pages
...deemed him« wondrous wise, and some believed hime mad. — Beattle. I thought the sparrow's note e from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ;...pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river nnd sky, He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye. — RW Emerson. a Rule is., Bem. 7. '' In apposition...
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...blessed the lad : Some deemed him0 wondrous wise, and some believed hime mad. — .HcAiitic,. I thought the sparrow's note « from heaven, Singing at dawn...alder bough ; I brought him home in his nest at even, — Tie sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky, .//is sang...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 600 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...neighbour's creed hath lent, All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on...now, for I did not bring home the river and sky, He san? to my ear, these sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore — The bubbles of the latest...
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Our Native Songsters

Anne Pratt - 1852 - 502 pages
...this bird that the poet wrote : — " I thought the sparrow's note from heaven Singing at dawn, from the alder bough ; I brought him home in his nest at...sky ; He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye." But to return to our sober little bird, which, if its song is sweet, is at least not remarkable for...
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